Dale Schroedel
Chair, Board of Directors; Co-Founder, Representation Matters
Dale has spent most of her professional life committed to issues related to gender equality and justice. Since 2008, she has been a political organizer and fundraiser for projects focused on electing more women to public office, including Outreach Director for WomenCount, Programs Director for The 2012 Project, co-founder of Electing Women San Francisco, Hillary Clinton’s two presidential campaigns, London Breed for Mayor, and Volunteer Candidate Coordinator for Emerge America. She served on the Women’s Committee of Mayor London Breed’s Policy Transition Team. She co-founded Representation Matters in 2020, an effort to change the face of power by supporting Black women and women of color candidates. She is also on the National Finance Committee for Barbara Lee for Senate. She currently serves as Treasurer of the Board of Winning Leaders Emerge, Emerge America’s 501(c)(4) organization, and is a member of Emerge’s National Advisory Board.
Prior to involvement in electoral politics, Dale was a private investigator for 18 years, with a specialty in employment discrimination and criminal defense investigations, a contract attorney for Equal Rights Advocates briefly, Executive Director of the National Women and the Law Association for five years, and a psychiatric nurse in major New York City hospitals and institutions for five years.
Dale has a B.S. in Nursing (Hunter College, NY), an M.S. in Psychiatric Nursing (New York University), a J.D. (Cardozo School of Law), and she is a Licensed Private Investigator.