Susannah Wellford Biography

Ms. Wellford founded Running Start in the spring of 2007 to inspire young women and girls to take political action. The Women Under Forty Political Action Committee (WUFPAC), which Susannah assisted in founding in 1999 and oversaw for its first five years, is promoted by Running Start. A nationwide women's organization, WUFPAC is committed to selecting young women for political office. WUFPAC, a nonpartisan organization, is the central political action council in the U.S. devoted to assisting young women from all groups to run for elected office. Ms. Wellford frequently discusses the value of integrating progressive young women in legislative problems at colleges, graduate schools, political meetings, exchange affiliations, and not-for-profits. Additionally, she has spoken on legislative issues before various international audiences, including women from Kuwait, Southeast Asia, Korea, Bahrain, and Russia. She was welcomed by the Kuwaiti administration in the spring of 2006 and dispatched by the State Department to speak in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Israel, Belgium, and Moscow. She also met up-and-coming first ladies in Kuwait and encouraged them in their crusades. She worked for a period at Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand after receiving her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998. She advocated for local, state, and federal governments and business interests before Congress and the Executive Branch.

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