While women remain significantly underrepresented in government, there is at least one adjacent field in which they have achieved gender parity in leadership: the universe of democracy reform and bridge-building organizations.
In its 2021 Diversity Report, the Bridge Alliance found that half of the executives leading its 100 member organizations are women. (Disclosure: The Fulcrum is a program within the Bridge Alliance, which brings together organizations working toward a healthy democracy.)
To mark Women’s History Month, The Fulcrum is spotlighting just some of the women leading these organizations.
Meg Heubeck
Director of Instruction, Youth Leadership Initiative
"Civic education is at the heart of what American schools are about. In my thirty years in education I have witnessed the power of quality civic education to excite, engage and empower a student to a lifetime of civic engagement, civil discourse, and consensus building that is essential to the functioning of the American republic.. That engagement makes our schools, our communities and our nation stronger. That is why I do what I do- all year, every year."