Amy Widestrom

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.


Latest from Amy Widestrom

  • Opinion

    Op-ed: Pennsylvania: Keep Calm and Vote

    Voting is core to American democracy. When we cast a ballot, we choose the representatives and policies that affect our lives and the freedom and rights we value.The right to vote must be protected for all.  Election Day is the last day to cast our ballots, but not the end of the process. Once polls…


  • Politics

    Opinion: Reproductive choice and other freedoms are at stake in 2024

    The League urges legislators to show their support for state-level bills that enhance reproductive healthcare choices, such as HB1888 proposing an amendment to the PA Constitution protecting reproductive liberty.