Rebecca Sive is a speaker and commentator on women’s political leadership and power, a past lecturer at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and the author of two books, Vote Her In: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President (2018), and Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman’s Guide to Winning Any Office, from the PTA to the White House (2013). Sive’s writing on women and politics has been published by The Huffington Post, The Hill, MSNBC, Crains Chicago Business, and Feministing.
Sive, listed in Feminists Who Changed America (2006, University of Illinois Press), has been widely recognized for her distinguished public leadership and advocacy of opportunity for women and girls. She has spoken on women and leadership at: Starbucks HQ, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Navigant Consulting, Inc., Mesirow Financial, Publicis Groupe, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, the Women's Funding Network, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Roosevelt Institute, National Conference of State Legislatures, Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, The Ohio State University, University of Washington Law School, University of Texas, and the Association for Women Journalists.
At the start of their respective inaugural terms, Sive was among the national leaders who developed women's issues agendas for Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. She has advised numerous celebrities, public officials, and corporate leaders and was a corporate officer and director. Sive was a gubernatorial appointee to the Illinois Human Rights Commission; a mayoral appointee as a commissioner of the Chicago Park District; a founding board member of the Chicago Foundation for Women; and has served as a director of many other organizations and foundations.
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Every Day is Election Day: A Woman's Guide to Winning Any Office, from the PTA to the White House
Chicago Review Press [August 2013] -
Every Day is Election Day
Chicago Tonight [July 29, 2013] -
Weiner scandal puts wife Huma Abedin under harsh light
WBEZ's Morning Shift [July 26, 2013] -
Female image in politics: how much does it really matter?
WBEZ's Afternoon Shift [July 16, 2013] -
Author to women: `Every day is Election Day`
The Hill [August 1, 2013] -
Book To Read: Every Day Is Election Day
Progress Women [February 12, 2014] -
Why So Few Women in Politics? Ask Sandra Fluke.
Politico Magazine [February 05, 2014] -
Regular contributor to Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
Winning Any Office (or Male-Dominated Environment)
Lilith.org [February 27, 2014] -
IOPTV: Rebecca Sive
The University of Chicago, Institute of Politics [May 27, 2014] -
Gillibrand boosts profile raising money from women, for women
Newsday [May 25, 2014] -
Political Personality: A Woman's Guide on How to Win a Campaign
UTNE Reader [April 2014] -
Author Rebecca Sive On How To Be the Best Leader. Ever.
MTV act [November 29, 2013] -
Rebecca Sive Writes Woman's Guide to Achieving Political Office
Jewish Woman Magazine [Winter 2013] -
"Every Day Is Election Day: A Woman's Guide to Winning Any Office, from the PTA to the White House" -Interview
CSPAN Book TV [October 15, 2013] -
Gearing Up for 2016
Chicago PBS station [June 11, 2014] -
Can This 35-Year-Old Math Teach Become the Youngest Member of the Senate?
Cosmopolitan [October 2, 2014] -
Every Day is Election Day (Interview with Kali Patrice)
Today's Chicago Woman [September 1, 2014] -
Why women were the real midterm winners
MSNBC [November 15, 2014] -
7 Strategies for Stepping Up Our Political Women
Women's eNews [December 2, 2014] -
2015:The Year of Business Women Gaining Public Power
Feminist.com -
Lessons for future women candidates from Warren v. Clinton
The Hill [December 22, 2014]