Amy Widestrom, PhD-LWVPA Executive Director: Amy holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She has also been the recipient of several awards, including the 2016 American Political Science Association’s Clarence Stone Scholar Award, a Brookings Institution Research Fellowship, and an American Political Association Congressional Fellowship in 2008-09, when she worked for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs as the nation worked to recover from the 2008 economic crisis. Before joining the League, Amy was a faculty member at Arcadia University and head of the Political Science Department.
