Virginia Kase
Virginia Kase is the CEO of the League of Women Voters, where she builds upon her vision of an inclusive democracy where every person in America has the ability and opportunity to participate and advocate for issues that matter to them. Since 2018, Kase has led the 100-year-old organization through a period of rapid transformation and growth focused on building power by engaging in advocacy, legislation, expanded litigation, and organizing efforts to ensure voting rights for all.
Prior to joining LWV sheserved as COO of CASA, an organization at the forefront of the immigrant rights movement, representing nearly 100,000 members. In that leadership role, Kase managed the strategic growth, direction, and operations of the organization and served as a key thought leader on its politics and policy team. Earlier in her career, Kase served in leadership roles at various non-profit organizations where she developed grantmaking and capacity building programs for grassroots nonprofits that addressed issues of urban violence, economic, racial, and social inequality. During that time, she also studied what made these activities effective and used that information to assist groups in deepening their impact and identifying opportunities for cross-sector movement building.
Kase is a leading advocate for participatory elections and democracy. She has testified before Congress on election administration, appeared on various television news programs, and been quoted in news articles including The New York Times, Time Magazine, Glamour, and more. Kase was a recipient of the 2019 Hispanic Heritage Award for Leadership, and in March 2020 she was named to People en Español’s Most Powerful Women of the Year List. She serves on the boards of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Democracy Initiative, and the National Election Task Force on Election Crises, and she is a steering committee member of Open the Government.