Buffy Wicks

Buffy Wicks in 2009, introducing USAservice.org.

Buffy Jo Christina Wicks (born August 10, 1977) is an American political strategist. She previously served on the senior staff of President Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns and as Deputy Director at the White House Office of Public Engagement. As a national expert on grassroots organizing and politics, Wicks is frequently cited as a source for mainstream publications like TIME and the Associated Press.^[1]^[2]

Background

Born in Foresthill, California in 1977, Wicks graduated from Placer High School in 1995. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1999 with a B.A. degree in political science and history.^[3]

In 2000, she began a two-year program for an International Master in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies (PEACE Master) of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Castellón, Spain, under the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, but left in 2001 and did not complete the degree.^[4]

Career history

As one of the early hires on the 2008 campaign for President Obama, Wicks spearheaded new and innovative strategies for grassroots mobilization and was responsible for a new model of outcome-based organizing famously utilized during the Obama campaign.^[5] She was deployed to run state operations during the primaries and general election, including California, Texas and Missouri.^[6]

Wicks was then tapped by President Obama to serve in the Executive Office of the President as the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.^[7] In this role, she was President Obama’s liaison for key stakeholders throughout the country and charged with mobilizing their support to pass the president’s legislative priorities such as health care reform and financial regulation.

In 2012, she joined President Obama’s reelection effort and served as the National Director of Operation Vote.^[8] She spearheaded the campaign’s cutting edge strategy to communicate with and mobilize core demographic voters, including African Americans, Latinos, young people, and women, producing record turnout among targeted voter segments.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14] She drove strategies across departments—including organizing, digital, earned media, paid media, messaging, political outreach, and analytics—and engaged the campaign’s base to ensure the largest support and turnout from these key constituencies.

From 2014-2015, Wicks transitioned Obama’s SuperPAC Priorities USA into a pro-Hillary Clinton vehicle and served as its Executive Director.^[15]^[16] Wicks previously worked in the labor movement, fighting for better health care and wages for disenfranchised workers, and on Capitol Hill.^[17] She was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics and Public Policy at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress focusing on public policies affecting women and families.^[18]^[19]

Wicks is the co-host of the Riveters Podcast, a weekly podcast described as an "ode to modern womanhood" which features new guests each week to discuss issues facing women today. Guests have included Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood of America; Neera Tanden, President of the Center for American Progress; Sarah Thomas, the first female NFL referee; and Jay Newton-Small, Washington Correspondent for TIME Magazine and author of Broad Influence: How Women are Change the Way America Works.

Wicks frequently publishes opinion editorials for TIME, Politico, and the Daily Beast on current political events.^[20]^[21]^[22] She also gives regular speeches in the United States and abroad on organizing, leadership, women's issues, and the state of American politics.^[23]^[24]^[25]

References

↑ Newton-Small, Jay. "Democrats Salivate—and Shudder—at the Prospect of Trump". TIME.com. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
↑ Press, Associated. "Clinton faces challenge in Iowa caucus reminiscent of 2008". poconorecord.com. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
↑ "4 UAA Alums in the Obama Administration - UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs E-news, October 2009". www.washington.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "estudiantes-students". Web.archive.org. 2009-12-15. Archived from the original on 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
↑ McKenna, Elizabeth; Han, Hahrie (2014-12-02). Groundbreakers: How Obamas 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199394623.
↑ "Obama taps Buffy Wicks to head Missouri campaign - St. Louis Business Journal". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "President Obama Launches Office of Public Engagement". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "Obama for America 2012 Campaign Organization". www.p2012.org. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "Obama campaign unveils Project Vote, aimed at expanding registration, participation of base constituencies: 'the path to victory' – Rick Perry makes debate debut with POLITICO-NBC, Sept. 7". POLITICO. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "Yes They Can (They Think)". GQ. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "The Empowerment Campaign and its Dividends". GQ. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "A changing America: In 2012, blacks outvoted whites". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "Obama’s Re-Election Sets Record for Support From Latino Voters". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "5 Fast Facts About 2012 Asian American Voters". name. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ Gold, Matea (2014-01-09). "Priorities USA set to join 2016 fray with new leadership". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "Pro-Clinton super PAC builds new leadership". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "The Year of the Organizer". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "Buffy Wicks - Georgetown IPPS". Georgetown IPPS. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ "RELEASE: Buffy Wicks Named Senior Fellow with CAP’s Work on Women’s Policy Issues". name. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
↑ Wicks, Buffy. "The Only Way to Dump Trump Is to Vote for Clinton". TIME.com. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
↑ "The GOP's 'window-dressing' project". POLITICO. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
↑ Wicks, Buffy (2013-06-21). "Why the GOP Has Lost the Women’s Vote for 2014 and Beyond". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
↑ "Buffy Wicks | The John Adams Institute". www.john-adams.nl. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
↑ ChifleyCentre (2013-12-05), Buffy Wicks Keynote Address to Building a Progressive Future (1 of 2), retrieved 2016-03-19
↑ "Buffy Wicks » Lesbians Who Tech - The Community of Queer Women In & Around Tech". lesbianswhotech.org. Retrieved 2016-03-19.

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Barack Obama's Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Rahm Emanuel Pete Rouse William M. Daley Jack Lew Denis McDonough Mona Sutphen Nancy-Ann DeParle Rob Nabors	2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013– 2009–11 2011–13 2013–15	National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan	Jim Jones Thomas E. Donilon Susan Rice Thomas E. Donilon Denis McDonough Tony Blinken Avril Haines Douglas Lute^†	2009–10 2010–13 2013– 2009–10 2010–13 2013–14 2015– 2009–13
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations	Jim Messina Alyssa Mastromonaco Anita Decker Breckenridge	2009–11 2011–14 2014–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	Ben Rhodes John O. Brennan Lisa Monaco	2009– 2009–13 2013–
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning	Mark B. Childress Kristie Canegallo	2012–14 2014–	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough Brooke Anderson	2009–10 2011–12
Senior Advisor to the President	David Axelrod David Plouffe Daniel Pfeiffer Shailagh Murray	2009–11 2011–13 2013–15 2015–	White House Communications Director	Anita Dunn Daniel Pfeiffer Jennifer Palmieri Jen Psaki	2009 2009–13 2013–15 2015–
Senior Advisor to the President Counselor to the President	Pete Rouse Brian Deese Pete Rouse John Podesta	2009–10 2015– 2011–13 2014–15	Deputy White House Communications Director	Jen Psaki Jennifer Palmieri Amy Brundage	2009–11 2011–14 2014–15
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Director of Public Engagement Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Director, National Economic Council	Valerie Jarrett Christina Tchen Jon Carson Paulette Aniskoff Cecilia Muñoz David Agnew Jerry Abramson Lawrence Summers Gene Sperling Jeffrey Zients	2009– 2009–11 2011–13 2013– 2009–12 2012–14 2014– 2009–10 2011–14 2014–	White House Press Secretary Deputy Press Secretary Director of Special Projects Director of Speechwriting White House Counsel	Robert Gibbs Jay Carney Josh Earnest Bill Burton Josh Earnest Eric Schultz Stephanie Cutter Jon Favreau Cody Keenan Greg Craig Robert Bauer Kathryn Ruemmler W. Neil Eggleston	2009–11 2011–13 2013– 2009–11 2011–13 2014– 2010–11 2009–13 2013– 2009–10 2010–11 2011–14 2014–
Deputy Director, National Economic Council Deputy Director, National Economic Council Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Diana Farrell Brian Deese Jason Furman Paul Volcker	2009–11 2011–13 2009–13 2009–11	Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Phil Schiliro Rob Nabors Miguel Rodriguez Katie Beirne Fallon	2009–11 2011–13 2013 2013–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer Austan Goolsbee Jason Furman	2009–10 2010–13 2013–	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski Amy Rosenbaum	2009– 2014–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Katharine Abraham	2011–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^† David Kalbaugh	2009–12 2012–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Director, Office of Political Affairs	Patrick Gaspard David Simas	2009–11 2013–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter R. Orszag Jack Lew Jeffrey Zients Sylvia Mathews Burwell Brian Deese Shaun Donovan	2009–10 2010–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014 2014–	Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer	Aneesh Chopra Todd Park Megan Smith Vivek Kundra Steven VanRoekel Tony Scott	2009–12 2012–14 2014– 2009–11 2011–14 2015–
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–13	Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Nancy Hogan Johnathan McBride Valerie Green	2010–14 2014–15 2015–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Liebman Heather Higginbottom Brian Deese	2010 2011–13 2013–15	Director of Scheduling and Advance Director, White House Military Office	Alyssa Mastromonaco Danielle White Crutchfield George D. Mulligan, Jr. Emmett Beliveau	2009–11 2011– 2009–13 2013–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk Michael Froman	2009–13 2013–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu Broderick Johnson	2009–13 2013–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes Cecilia Muñoz	2009–12 2012–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith Rachana Bhowmik Michael Robertson Gaurab Bansal	2009–11 2011–13 2013–15 2015–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom Mark Zuckerman	2009–11 2011–	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown Rajesh De Douglas Kramer Joani Walsh	2009–11 2011–12 2012–13 2014–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois Melissa Rogers	2009–2013 2013–	Assistant to the President for Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley Katy Kale Maju Varghese	2009–13 2013–15 2015–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy-Ann DeParle	2009–11	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez Brian Mosteller	2009–12 2012–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–2011	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love Marvin Nicholson	2009–11 2011–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–11	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson Anita Decker Breckenridge Ferial Govashiri	2009–11 2011–14 2014–
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal Dan Utech	2009–2013 2013–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–11
Director, Council on Environmental Quality	Nancy Sutley Michael Boots	2009–2014 2014–	Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Jeffrey Crowley Grant Cofax Douglas Brooks	2009–2011 2012–2014 2014–
Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Jackie Norris Susan Sher Christina Tchen	2009 2009–10 2011–	Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske Michael Botticelli	2009–14 2014–
White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers Julianna Smoot Jeremy Bernard Deesha Dyer	2009–10 2010–11 2011–15 2015–	Director, Office of Urban Affairs	Adolfo Carrión, Jr. Racquel Russell	2009–2010 2010–
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

^*Senate-confirmation pending. †Remained from previous administration (s).

Assistant to the President for Public Liaison

Special Counsel to the President, Special Assistant to the President, Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, Assistant to the President for Public Outreach, Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs

Charles Colson William J. Baroody, Jr. Midge Costanza Anne Wexler Elizabeth Dole Faith Whittlesey Linda Chavez Mari Maseng Rebecca Range Bobbie Kilberg Cecile B. Kremer Alexis Herman Maria Echaveste Minyon Moore Mary Beth Cahill Lezlee Westine Rhonda Keenum Julie E. Cram Valerie Jarrett

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Buffy Wicks

Background

Career history

See also

References

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