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Buffy Jo Christina Wicks (born August 10, 1977) is the executive director of the Priorities USA Action pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.[1] She is also vice-president for political affairs at AKPD Message and Media. She is the former deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama Administration. [2] She is also known by the sobriquet given to her by Walmart executives, “Buffy the Walmart slayer,” for her role as the former political director of the 2006 Wake Up Wal-Mart campaign to protest the minimum wages and benefits paid to Walmart employees.[3][4][5]

Background

Born in Foresthill, California in 1977, Wicks graduated from Placer High School in 1994. She graduated from the University of Washington in 1998 with a B.A. degree in political science and history.[6][7]

In 2000, she began a two-year program for an International Master in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies (PEACE Master) of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), Castellón, Spain, under the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, but left in 2001 and did not complete the degree.[8]

Career history

2013 Vice president for political affairs at AKPD Media and Fellow, Center for American Progress; 2012 Obama campaign, director GOTV; Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement (May 2009-April 2010); Director, Renew America Together (January-May 2009); 2008 Obama campaign: Missouri state director, Texas deputy director, California field director; Political Director, "Wake Up Wal-Mart" (2006-2007); Organizer in the 'Anti-War in Iraq' campaign in San Francisco, CA. Co-founded Hoi-Polloi, "a people’s organization created by a small group of conscientious thinkers striving for world peace."; Campaign manager on Jay Fetcher's 2004 state Senate campaign in Colorado; Des Moines organizer on Howard Dean's Iowa caucus campaign.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ J. Garofoli. Ex-San Franciscan to lead top pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC; San Francisco Chronicle. January 10, 2014.
  2. ^ Matea Gold. Priorities USA set to join 2016 fray with new leadership; Washington Post January 9, 2014.
  3. ^ Ron Galloway.Buffy the Hillary Slayer. Huffington Post. January 28, 2008
  4. ^ Fortune, "Attack of the Wal-Martyrs," Nov. 28, 2006
  5. ^ Post Store. "Buffy Wicks". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
  6. ^ "Buffy Wicks | Center for American Progress". Webcache.googleusercontent.com. 2014-01-04. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
  7. ^ a b "Obama for America 2012 Campaign Organization". P2012.org. Retrieved 2014-01-15.
  8. ^ "estudiantes-students". Web.archive.org. 2009-12-15. Archived from the original on 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2014-01-15.