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Rebecca Haile, Co-Founder and CEO of the U.S.-based nonprofit Ethiopia Education Initiatives, Inc., has been elected Chairperson of the Board of Directors of EMILY’s List, one of the largest women’s associations in the United States. (Photo: Rebecca Haile speaking at the opening ceremony and luncheon of the Haile-Manas Academy in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia, on December 30, 2018 / Tadias Archive)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias staff
Updated: December 16, 2020
NY (TADIAS) – EMILY’s List, America’s largest resource for women in politics that helps elect Democratic candidates for public office, has chosen Ethiopian-American businesswoman and philanthropist Rebecca Haile as its new board chair.
“After a second consecutive cycle of record-breaking, EMILY’s List announced several leadership changes today, including EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock, who resigned in spring 2021 after 11 years in office,” the organization said in a Press release. In addition, EMILY’s List Founder and Chairman of the Board, Ellen Malcolm, will become Chairman Emeritus and EMILY’s List Board Member Rebecca Haile was elected Chairman of the Board. The EMILY’s List board also voted to form a search committee and move on to the next steps to find a new president. “
The press release added: “This change in leadership comes as EMILY’s List is in its strongest position yet, after two record cycles and the incredible growth of female Democrats running for public office.”
In the last decade, “EMILY’s List has raised more than $ 460 million for the organization and our candidates and spent $ 160 million on independent spending” while supporting “more than 1,800 women, elected nearly 1,000 women at the polls and trained more than 14,000 women. “
The organization notes that EMILY’s List’s new chairwoman of the board, Rebecca Haile, is an entrepreneur in business and philanthropy. “She is the co-founder and CEO of Ethiopia Education Initiatives, Inc., which seeks to provide world-class educational opportunities for talented Ethiopian students and has already started her first school in central Ethiopia. Rebecca is also a Senior Advisor to Foros, an independent boutique M&A and strategic advisory firm that she helped establish in 2009. Rebecca graduated from Williams College and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor for the Harvard Law Review. She is the author of Held at a Distance: My Rediscovery of Ethiopia, a memoir of her return to Ethiopia after her family’s forced exile after the 1974 revolution and 25 years in the United States. Rebecca is a board member of Brearley School, an independent school for K-12 girls in New York City and a former member of the board of directors of Freedom House, a human rights organization. “
In a statement, Rebecca Haile said, “I look forward to working with the staff, the board, and our next president to change the face of American politics for generations to come.”
According to the announcement:
“With a grassroots community of more than five million members, EMILY’s List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns, across the country and at the polls, recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping to build strong campaigns, researching the issues affecting women and families, running nearly $ 50 million in independent spending in the last cycle alone, and getting women voters and voters of color at the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the nation’s first woman as vice president, 157 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors and more than 1,300 women to state and local offices. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILY’s List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women approached the EMILY List to run for office, laying the foundation for the next decade of candidates for local, state and national offices. In our effort to elect more women to offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program to include an Online Training Center, and trained thousands of women. “
“I am very happy that Rebecca is the new president because she has the skills, the commitment and the vision to guide us in this next transition. I look forward to staying on the board and helping her in any way possible, ”said Ellen Malcolm, founder and president emerita of EMILY’s List.
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