Nancy Bocskor

Mentor - Sharpen Your Political and Campaign Skills

Nancy BocskorNancy Bocskor serves as one of the Campaign Skills Mentors with the Online Activism Institute.  She founded The Nancy Bocskor Company in 1990, where she specializes in teaching citizens how to communicate with passion to affect change in their communities.

Nancy has taught campaign schools in all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries; the German newspaper Die Welt calls her a "Democracy Coach."  In 2007, she worked with the Center of Liberty in the Middle East (CLIME) to train women from Algeria, Morocco and Jordan who were running for elections.  One of her candidates was the top woman vote-getter in Jordan and is now a Member of Parliament.  She conducted a three-day leadership conference for women from Belarus in late 2007, and taught 100 attendees from 30 countries at an International School of Fundraising in 2008. 

Nancy has served as a chief-of-staff on Capitol Hill, a campaign manager, a fundraiser and a political educator.  Currently she is a professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, where she teaches both classroom and online Fundraising classes.

She is the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale, where she chairs the Curriculum Committee.  She is also on the board of Running Start, an organization that encourages young women to run for office. 

 Nancy graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio with degrees in Political Science and Business.

 For more information about Nancy, please visit her website, www.NancyBocskor.com.