Melanie L. Campbell

Melanie L. Campbell
President & CEO
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Convener, Black Women’s Roundtable
 

Twitter: @coalitionbuildr

Melanie L. Campbell is the president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and a convener for the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR).  Campbell is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of civic engagement, Black voter participation, Census, voting rights and coalition building. A veteran at leading highly successful multi-million dollar civic engagement and issue-based campaigns, she is recognized as one of the hardest working leaders in today’s Civil Rights, Women’s Rights and Social Justice movements.

Campbell brings Black women together nationally and in key states to build power for Black women and girls and families and communities to live their best lives by focusing on four strategic platforms: health & wellness, economic security & prosperity, education and global empowerment.  Under her leadership, the BWR releases an annual report on the status of Black women and hosts its annual Women of Power national summit during Women’s History Month in March in Washington, D.C., bringing Black women’s policy priorities and agenda to Capitol Hill.  She is committed to lifting up Black women’s leadership in the movement for justice, fairness and equality as core to her life’s work. She was recently featured in Essence Magazine’s 100 Woke Women.

Campbell is a contributing writer for the 5th annual BWR Report, Black Women in the U.S. & Key States, 2018, Time for a Power Shift; the 2013 National Black Caucus of State Legislators Magazine, 2013 Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s 50th Anniversary Op-Ed Series in the Washington Post; 2008 National Urban League State of Black America, Election Reform: Protecting Our Vote from the Enemy Who Never Sleeps; the 2006 Harvard University Journal on African Americans in public policy, A Nation Exposed: Rebuilding African American Communities, writing Right of Return Means Access to the Ballot, Access to Neighborhoods, and Access to Economic Opportunity. She also contributed to the publication’s 2004 edition, Politics & Progress: A Presidential Platform for 2004.

Campbell is a regularly featured as a special guest on radio, TV and print, including The Washington Post,  Essence, NBCNews.com, MSNBC, TV One, The Washington Informer, Gannett News, C-SPAN, XM Radio,  WHUR, Amsterdam News, Politics365, USA Today, Huffington Post, Ebony.com and more.  She has received outstanding leadership and woman of power awards from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, National Urban League, National Newspaper Publishers Association, National Action Network, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Women in the NAACP, SCLC W.O.M.E.N., National Voting Rights Museum & Institute, State Farm Insurance and 100 Black Men of Washington D.C.

Campbell has a B.A. in Business Administration from Clark Atlanta University and a certificate in non-profit executive management from Georgetown University. She is a member of the inaugural class of Progressive Women’s Voices at the Women’s Media Center and a resident fellow alumni at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Institute of Politics at Harvard University.

A Mims, Florida native, Campbell is also an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Social Action Commission, Northern Virginia and Greater Washington Urban Leagues, National Council of Negro Women, NAACP, the National Association of Female Executives and many other civic and community-based organizations.