Claudia Malloy

Senior Director of Campaigns, Unite America

Claudia Malloy is a nonprofit leader who, for more than three decades, has woven together public policy, communications, advocacy, and movement building into a powerful force for change. She has crafted and led numerous successful grassroots and policy campaigns and has inspired countless citizens to join her in the work to make our nation and world a better place.

Currently, Claudia is Senior Director of Campaigns at Unite America, a philanthropic venture that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. She invests in state legislative campaigns, national organizations, and candidates working to advance nonpartisan primaries, redistricting, and instant runoffs.

In her work at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the National Wildlife Federation and Common Cause, Claudia has been instrumental in winning passage and promotion of landmark policies, including the passage of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, finalizing President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, pausing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, passing the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, enacting programs to remove sugary beverages from public schools, and requiring nutrition labeling on restaurant menus.

Claudia co-founded the National Wildlife Federation's Women in Conservation Leadership initiative that seeks to advance and empower women leadership in the U.S. conservation community and Planet Women, a nonprofit working to promote more women into leadership positions and deploying women as a conservation strategy to solve intractable environmental problems that threaten global health, economics, and the natural world.

While working in the public interest, Claudia also has served on numerous volunteer boards. As the President and board member of Friends of Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park, her work helping save and restore the Washington, D.C. park was recognized by President Bill Clinton.

Claudia is a graduate of Kent State and in 1996 was honored with their Young Alumni Achievement Award.  A native of Canton, Ohio, Claudia lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband Chris and their two cats.