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Progressive Elections, LLC is a new pro-choice, pro-LGBT political consulting ﬁrm that brings over 60 years of electoral and advocacy experience to its clients. Formed in 2018 by Libby Post and Sheila Healy, Progressive Elections can provide the full array of campaign services from branding and message development to direct mail and ad buys to ﬁeld plans and coordination to campaign management. Progressive Elections will only work with candidates who are pro-choice and pro-LGBT rights.

About the Founders

Libby Post is the President of Communication Services, a boutique political communications firms that specializes in libraries, health care, advocacy and electoral politics. She has a long history as an advocate and activist in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. She is the founder of the Empire State Pride Agenda.

Post works extensively with public libraries on their financial stability and sustainability issues. She also works with statewide health care organizations and local political candidates. Post also runs the New York State Animal Protection Federation, the voice of the State’s humane societies, SPCAs, animal shelters and animal welfare organizations. She is a commentator and regular panelist on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio’s The Roundtable. She holds a Masters in Political Communications from the University at Albany, SUNY and began her activist career at the Student Association of the State University (SASU) in 1978.

Sheila Healy has over 25 years experience in state government, non-profit management, progressive politics, and representing national, state and community-based non-profit organizations before the New York State Legislature and Executive Branch.

From 1998 through 2003, Ms. Healy directed the education, advocacy and research activities of the Empire State Pride Agenda Foundation and coordinated a statewide coalition of 50 non-profits addressing the non-HIV health and human service needs of the LGBT community. She then moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as the first executive director of the National Association of LGBT Community Centers, a non-profit organization providing technical assistance, training and leadership development to 150 community centers across the country.

Ms. Healy returned to Albany in 2006 and joined Brown McMahon & Weinraub LLC as a Government Relations Consultant. In this capacity, she represented non-profit clients before the New York State Legislature and Executive Branch and advised the firm’s partners on budget and regulatory matters related to hospital and prescription drug Medicaid reimbursement rates. She launched Sheila Healy Government Relations in early 2008 to focus exclusively on offering lobbying and consulting services to nonprofit organizations.

Progressive Elections

Campaign Strategy, Brand & Message, Mail and Social Management

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