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Melanie L. Campbell
Melanie L. Campbell is an American expert and advocate on issues concerning race, gender, politics, human rights and voting who has fought for civil, youth and women's rights for over 20 years. Contemporarily, Campbell is considered one of the hardest working leaders in the Women's Rights, Civil Rights and Social Justice Movements. She's worked on various political campaigns, and is widely known for her profound ability to build coalitions between various affinity groups.

Earlier Life
Melanie L. Campbell is a Mims, Florida native who obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration and Finance from Clark Atlanta University in August of 1983, where she was a student organizer for the NAACP. She was a Resident Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of

Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 2003, where she taught a study group on Youth Civic Engagement & Voter Participation. In 2007, Campbell received an Executive Non-Profit Management Certification from Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute Executive Program in 2007.

Career

 * 1) Executive Director and Chief Executive Directing Officer of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
 * 2) Served as Lead Trainer in 1996 for the West African Women's Colloquium in Ghana, West Africa
 * 3) Worked on Bill Clinton Presidential Campaign
 * 4) Worked on Jesse Jackson's Presidential Campaign
 * 5) Worked on Andrew Young's Mayoral Campaign
 * 6) Her leadership and organizational abilities played a crucial role in the 2012 Presidential Election- a historical election year where more Black citizens voted than white, and more Black women voted than any other group.
 * 7) Campbell is the Convener of Black Women's Roundtable where she builds coalitions of women from various racial and ethnic backgrounds in order to advocate for public policy that will advance the rights of women in the United States.
 * 8) The Black Women's Roundtable played a pivotal role in appointing multiple Black people to the Obama administration
 * 9) Campbell's well known, successful projects focused on election reform, coalition building and civic engagement include: Unity Voter Empowerment Campaign, Unity Diaspora Coalition Census 2010 Campaign and the ReBuild Hope NOW Coalition
 * 10) Founder of a leadership development program for Black youth called Black Youth Vote! (BYV)
 * 11) Former Director of the Mayor's Offices of Youth Services for Maynard Jackson in Atlanta, Georgia
 * 12) Member of the NOBEL African American Women in Technology Caucus
 * 13) Member of the Communications Workers of America Speed Matters Coalition
 * 14) Member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Social Action Commission
 * 15) Member of the Northern Virginia and Greater Washington Urban Leagues
 * 16) Member of the National Council of Negro Women
 * 17) Member of the NAACP
 * 18) Member of the National Association of Female Executives
 * 19) Served as the CEO of the National Civil Rights Non-Profit (NCBCP)

Awards & Honors

 * 1) Washington D.C's Top Forty Under Forty Emerging Leaders of 2000
 * 2) Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Emerging Leaders Legacy Award
 * 3) Campbell has received outstanding leadership and woman of power awards from the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the National Urban League, Women in the NAACP, SCLC W.O.M.E.N, National Voting Rights Museum & Institute,  and 100 Black Men of Washington D.C

Media Appearances
Melanie L. Campbell has been featured in:


 * 1) Black Enterprise Magazine
 * 2) C-Span
 * 3) The Bev Show on AURN
 * 4) CNN
 * 5) The Washington Post
 * 6) Gannet News
 * 7) Washington Watch with Roland Martin

Published Work
Melanie L. Campbell has been a contributing writer to:


 * 1) The Paradox of Loyalty: African Americans Respond to the War on Terrorism
 * 2) 2008 National Urban League State of Black America
 * 3) Election Reform: Protecting our Vote from the Enemy Who Never Sleeps
 * 4) 2006 Harvard University Journal on African Americans in Public Policy, A Nation Exposed: Rebuilding African American Communities
 * 5) Right of Return Means Access to the Ballot, Access to Neighborhoods, and Access to Economic Opportunity
 * 6) 2004 Politics & Progress publication, A Presidential Platform for 2004