Nancy Bocskor

Nancy Bocskor is a highly sought-after speaker and internationally renowned expert in applied democracy. With more than 30 years of experience as a trainer and consultant, her client list includes citizen activists and organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Nancy is a professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management where she teaches both online and “live” fundraising courses. She also guides online students through their Practicum and Capstone Courses.

In addition to being the author of Go Fish: How to Catch (and Keep) Contributors: A Practical Guide to Fundraising, Nancy is equally recognized as a passionate and inspirational advocate for women’s participation in leadership, politics, and government. She is on the board for Running Start, an organization that encourages young women to run for office, and was a faculty member for Project 2012, a program hosted by the Center for American Women & Politics at Rutgers that recruits women to run for public office. Most recently, she joined the advisory board for the Veterans Campaign Workshop, a program that trains veterans for public service. She also served on the board of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale for seven years, where she chaired the school’s Curriculum Committee for five years.

A graduate of Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, Nancy received the 2010 “Distinguished Alumna Award” for her “passion to affect change in national and international communities through significant and poignant communication, for the training and consulting with our nation’s and world’s political leaders, and for her commitment to educate others, especially women, around the world.”

Nancy is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and seminars on topics such as global civic activism, fundraising, and women’s leadership. She has been an invited speaker for four consecutive years at the International Young Political Leaders Conference in Lake Seliger, Russia, where more than 1,000 students representing 50 countries attend annually. In the summer of 2011, Nancy was a visiting professor at the Moscow School of Humanitarian Studies where she lectured on political leadership. She regularly speaks at major conferences such as CIPE’s “Democracy that Delivers for Women” seminar, the AAUW national convention, and the ICAN Omaha’s Women Leadership Conference. For the past two years, she has spoken at the American University in Cairo to 80 Egyptian leaders representing the spectrum of political interests vying for a role in that country’s emerging democracy.

Nancy is the President of the Nancy Bocskor Company, founded in 1991, and her work as a political educator has been recognized by major publications around the world, including a report by a major German newspaper that described her as a “democracy coach.” Her commitment to training and educating others is reflected in her involvement with organizations such as Running Start, Project 2012, the Veterans Campaign Workshop, and the Women’s Campaign School at Yale. Her passion for effecting positive change through communication and political leadership has inspired students and professionals around the world.