Jackie Payne (she/her) is the founder and executive director of Galvanize Action, where she is connecting with moderate women to promote civic engagement, combat disinformation, and advance progress on key issues. Last year alone, Galvanize Action reached over four million women with programming proven to defuse the culture wars and grievance-based narratives being used to divide us. Jackie’s innovative leadership supports women to play a role in building a thriving, multiracial democracy.

Jackie has over two decades of experience leading organizations and working to advance gender, racial, and economic justice. Prior to founding Galvanize USA and Galvanize Action, Jackie designed and ran an 80 million dollar movement-building project for the NoVo Foundation. In this role, she partnered with an extraordinary team of racial and gender justice leaders to develop an intersectional approach to ending violence against girls and women. She previously championed reproductive justice as the Director of Government Relations for Planned Parenthood Federation of America and economic justice as a Legal Aid lawyer and as Policy Attorney for the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. Jackie received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan. She is a trustee of the Patsy Takemoto Mink Foundation and on the board of the Women and Justice Project.