Cristina Uribe

Cristina Uribe currently serves as the Special Assistant to the Executive Director at the National Education Association. In this role Cristina leads the organization’s efforts in the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategy to build and sustain complex collaborations with individual donors, philanthropic leaders, institutional allies as well as grant makers in education to further the mission of the organization’s members. Cristina is a veteran political strategist and organizer. For over 16 years, Cristina has provided strategic guidance to organizations, candidates and campaigns, at the local, state, and federal level. During the 2008 election cycle Cristina served as a Senior Advisor to the successful Defend Oregon campaign – an alliance of organizations formed to defeat eight regressive ballot measures that unfairly targeted teachers, children, Oregon charities and working families. Prior to joining NEA in 2008, Cristina served as the Western Regional Director of EMILY’s List, where she directed the organization’s political efforts in eleven western states. Cristina applied her knowledge of day-to-day management, messaging and field to help EMILY’s List-supported candidates build winning campaigns. Before joining EMILY’s List in 2004, Cristina was the statewide campaign manager for the Yes on Prop 52 - Election Day Voter Registration (EDVR) Initiative, which appeared on the California November 2002 ballot. Cristina also served as political director for the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council in San Jose. The driving force behind the South Bay Labor Council’s political program from 1998 to 2002, Cristina helped the Council achieve a string of electoral and legislative successes. Cristina currently serves on the board of ProgressNow, Committee on States and on the Advisory Committee for the Center on Education Organizing. She also serves as an adjunct trainer for Wellstone Action and is a past board member of EMILY’s List and Planned Parenthood Mar-Monte.