Amy Pritchard

Amy Pritchard is a political consultant and social entrepreneur. She specializes in strategy and voter contact for electoral, candidates, parties, advocacy campaigns and nonprofit organizations in the United States and globally for political parties, civil society, and socially responsible businesses. She has been a leader in the Democratic and Progressive movement in the US for over 30 years - and worked internationally on democracy and governance for more than 20. A native of Massachusetts, Amy rotates living in Cambridge, Washington, DC and Kigali, Rwanda.

Amy is a Senior Partner at Deliver Strategies, a leading voter contact firm, where she works for an assortment of progressive candidates and issue-based campaigns domestically producing direct mail and other print materials. She works independently through AP Campaigns to provide more broad services in the US and globally. Her services focus on print communications, direct mail, marketing, digital organizing, skills training, strategic planning, capacity building, and program management - focused on elections, advocacy, and governance. She recently she served as the Voter Contact Director for For Our Future, an Independent Expenditure campaign for the Presidential Campaign and Senate races in seven states.

She is the founder and President of the Board of Democratic GAIN – an association that supports Democratic and Progressive Political Professionals. One of the United States leading experts on initiatives and referenda, Pritchard is a founder of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. Other past positions include serving as the Midwest and Northeast Political Director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and National Political Director of the Democratic National Committee. Internationally she has worked as staff, consultant, and trainer for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Women’s Campaign International, Democracy International, and the McCain Institute in Kosovo, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Rwanda, Congo, Jordan, Burma, Indonesia, Venezuela, Nepal, the Gambia, the Netherlands, and Kenya and focus on voter contact, electoral organizing and field, message development, communications, social media, polling, research, and more.

Currently, she is also working to launch a new non-profit called Global GAIN to connect the US and international political and advocacy activists and leaders to each other and with projects promoting women and children around the world.

Her connection to Rwanda and Akhila began when she came to Rwanda in 2011 for NDI and served as their country director and met the founding Akilah team and she has stayed connected and committed to the country and college ever since.