Winnie Stachelberg

Executive Vice President for External Affairs

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Winnie Stachelberg is the Executive Vice President for External Affairs at the Center for American Progress. Stachelberg is a member of the American Progress Executive Committee helping to develop and drive the strategic direction of CAP’s multi-issue progressive agenda. Hired nearly five years ago, Stachelberg has helped expand and deepen American Progress’s reach and influence on the Hill, in the Administration, and beyond the beltway. She manages the Center’s sophisticated outreach, relationship tracking, and email marketing initiatives to better coordinate track and amplify outreach and policy initiatives.

She also helped launch the organization’s immigration policy program and currently oversees its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender project and Half in Ten antipoverty campaign.

Prior to joining the Center, Stachelberg spent 11 years with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay civil rights organization. She most recently served as the first vice president of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Charged with revamping HRC's Foundation, Stachelberg's early priorities included building a think tank, launching a religion and faith program, and rebuilding the National Coming Out Project.

Previously, she was HRC's political director, initiating and leading the expansion of HRC's legislative, political, and electoral strategies. Stachelberg joined HRC in 1994 as senior health policy advocate and helped to establish the organization as a key advocate in HIV/AIDS, lesbian health, and other health care issues affecting the LGBT community.

Before joining HRC, Stachelberg worked at the Office of Management and Budget in both the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, formulating and reviewing health care policies and budgets for the Department of Health and Human Services. A native New Yorker, Stachelberg taught at George Washington High School after graduating Georgetown University. She received a master of public administration from George Washington University.

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