Education and Training
Alumnae Profile
Liz Shirey
Liz Shirey is a 2003 alumna of the John Glenn Institute’s NEW Leadership class. She has a B.A. in political science and women's studies from The Ohio State University. While at OSU she co-founded Triota, a Women's Studies National Honor Society, worked for the Women's Fund of Central Ohio, which provides grants to programs that promise social change for women and girls, and interned at the Ohio Democratic Party and the office of State Representative Dan Stewart. She spent the 2004 presidential election in Washington, D.C. as a John Glenn Fellow, where she worked at the National Network to End Domestic Violence on a ground-breaking voter engagement and education program for survivors.
Liz worked as a legislative aide to Ohio Representative Claudette Woodard before joining the Ohio Democratic Party in the summer of 2006 as executive assistant to Chairman Chris Redfern. In January of 2008, Liz became the director of the Ohio Democratic Women’s Caucus, the first paid position of its kind at any state party in the nation. The ODWC’s mission is to organize and motivate women to vote for Democratic candidates, to identify and recruit more women to run for political office, and to help execute the ODP’s strategic political plan.