Debby Goldberg
Senior Vice President for Development
Debby Goldberg serves as the Senior Vice President for Development at American Progress. She has over 15 years of senior management, fundraising and marketing communications experience in the not-for-profit and political sectors, focusing on institutional fundraising, organizational development and strategic communications. Since 2002, Debby has been a not-for-profit development consultant to Human Rights Watch, Brooklyn College and the National Partnership for Women and Families in support of their historic fundraising efforts. Previously, she also served as chief of staff to New School University President Bob Kerrey.
In addition to her work in the not-for-profit sector, Debby's insight into campaigns, elections and governing stems from nine years working with Democratic candidates, campaigns, party organizations and the Clinton Administration. She served on the Presidential campaigns of Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton as well as on statewide races in Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. During the first Clinton Administration, she served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and as a public communications official for the U.S. Department of State.
Debby received her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and her undergraduate degree from Harvard College.