Rebecca Sive

Rebecca Sive is the author of three books on American women’s politics and power; a motivational speaker, experienced media analyst, and admired women’s leadership strategist; as well as a past faculty member of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and statewide governmental official. Sive co-produces and co-hosts the podcast, #VoteHerIn, with Two Broads Talking Politics, a “best political podcast,” according to Parade magazine. About Sive, Hillary Clinton has written: “I am grateful to you for adding your voice to the essential conversation about women’s leadership that we need to have as a country.”

Sive’s books include the Fall 2021 Make Herstory Your Story: A Guided Journal to Justice for Every Woman Every Day (It will motivate and inspire you…” Jill Wine-Banks, author, The Watergate Girl); Vote Her In: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President (“inspiring, savvy, and persuasive…” Jessica Yellin, host, News Not Noise); and Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman’s Guide to Winning Any Office, from the PTA to the White House (Cosmopolitan magazine says: a “must read.”). Sive’s articles and op-eds have appeared in The Huffington Post, Crain’s Chicago Business, The Hill, at MSNBC, and in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and elsewhere.

Sive’s audiences call her “a visionary, deeply thoughtful speaker on women’s leadership” and “profoundly radiant; delightful; lively; brilliant.” Sive has spoken at: Starbucks HQ, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, University of Washington Law School, the Women's Funding Network, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, The Ohio State University, University of Texas, and the Association for Women Journalists, among many others.

Founder of one of the nation’s first women’s centers; a leader of the campaign to elect Chicago’s first African American mayor (Harold Washington) and advisor to him, Sive was among the national decisionmakers who developed women’s issues agendas for presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Sive holds an M.A. in American History and is the recipient of many awards for her public leadership. About her, Cecile Richards, best-selling author and co-founder of Supermajority has said: “Advocates like you, Rebecca–dedicated to educating and empowering the next generation of women leaders –make me so confident in our country’s future. I applaud the important work you are doing.”