About Us

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Meredith McGehee, Principal
McGehee has been repeatedly named by The Hill newspaper as one of Washington’s top public interest lobbyists.
McGehee Strategies is a respected Washington-based consulting practice specializing in the formulation and implementation of public interest advocacy campaigns.

Utilizing skills in lobbying, grassroots advocacy, communications and messaging, McGehee Strategies has been at the forefront a number of high-profile and high-impact campaigns in the areas of money in politics and ethics, campaign advertising, child nutrition, global health, breastfeeding promotion, and school violence prevention.

Our client list includes the California WIC Association, Communities in Schools of Chicago, Common Cause, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the League of Women Voters, and the US Breastfeeding Committee.  McGehee currently serves as Policy Director of the Campaign Legal Center, a recipient of the prestigious 2014 MacArthur Foundation Award for Effective and Creative Institutions.  

McGehee Strategies was founded by Meredith McGehee​. McGehee is one of the nation’s foremost experts on Congress and has been described as one of the most in-the-know persons about ethics, lobbying, money-in-politics, and the role of media in campaigns.  She has a reputation as an honest broker who holds both parties accountable to the same standards.  As a public interest advocate, McGehee focuses on sound public policy and effective legislative strategy. McGehee has testified several times before Congress, is frequently quoted in national media and is an entertaining public speaker. She is known for pulling back the curtain and deciphering how politics — especially in Washington — really work. 

McGehee has been repeatedly named by The Hill newspaper as one of Washington’s top public interest lobbyists in Washington. McGehee worked on Capitol Hill, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa and is a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of Pomona College in California. 

We would love to work with you to achieve your social change goals.  Contact us today.