Jane Kleeb is an experienced grassroots organizer, manager, political strategist, and nonprofit entrepreneur. In 2010, she founded Bold Nebraska, which later became the Bold Alliance, a network of diverse coalitions in rural states of America working to protect the land and water.Since 2017, Jane has also served in a volunteer capacity as Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party. She is the author of Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America, published in 2020. As Executive Director of the Young Democrats of America from 2004 to 2007, Jane implemented the first-ever national youth coordinated campaign to mobilize the youth vote and worked with an alliance of diverse groups ranging from Punk Voters to Stonewall Democrats.As Nebraska State Director of the SEIU Change That Works Project in 2008–2010, she brought together leaders from advocacy and faith groups, doctors, farmers, ranchers, and small businesses to secure a key vote for passage of the Affordable Care Act.As one of the youngest AmeriCorps Executive Directors in 1996-2000, she led a team at Bond Elementary in Tallahassee and later in Philadelphia, to increase the reading levels of elementary school children.Jane Fleming Kleeb has a B.A. in religious studies, with minors in women and gender studies and leadership studies, from Stetson University and an M.A. in international training and education from American University.