Yes, my favorite show is The West Wing.
(My favorite character is Leo… Now on to the more important stuff!)
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Callie Pruett Schwaber
Callie is a seasoned advocacy manager, policy professional, and political strategist with a depth of experience in campaign design, as well as nonprofit lobbying, policy, advocacy, and strategy. The values that she brings to her working environment are kindness, curiosity, creativity, and passion.
Callie was most recently the cohost of the global top 1% podcast, Appodlachia, and the Executive Director of Appalachians for Appalachia - an independent, research-focused advocacy nonprofit with a mission to nurture, empower and amplify regional organizations and leadership in order to build robust, vibrant, and just communities throughout Central Appalachia.
Callie is the former Senior Strategist for Grassroots Advocacy for the American Physical Society (APS) - the largest professional organization and academic journal for physicists in the US that has published the last eleven years of Nobel Prize-winning articles in physics. She is also the former lead strategist and manager of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction in partnership with Princeton University and the Carnegie Corporation.
Earlier in her career, Callie was a campaign professional, from local races to the highest levels of congressional and gubernatorial campaigns throughout the South, including on Emily’s List-endorsed races and DCCC top-tier races.
Callie has a degree in the sociology of social inequality from Appalachian State University, and her graduate work is in human rights from Southern Methodist University.