Hello, my name is Susannah Wellford

I'm a native Washingtonian and the CEO & founder of Running Start, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization training young women to run for political office.  My work takes me around the country and the world to speak to young women & girls about women's leadership and the need for a better gender balance in politics.  I'm also the co-founder and past president of Women Under Forty PAC which helps young women in America get elected to Congress.  When I am not working, I spend time with my twins Bea and James Shakow and my fabulously supportive friends and family.  

The blogs on this site were first published by US News & World Report on their opinion page Civil Wars.