Elyssa Feder is the Executive Director of Rising Organizers. She has over a decade of experience as an organizer and trainer for social movements, and has held roles as the Training Director for EMILY’s List and Deputy Training Director at Priorities USA, the largest Democratic Super PAC. While at EMILY’s List, she created multiple new training programs, including the Ignite Change Fellowship, which trained women from underrepresented communities to increase their presence in political office. She co-founded Rising Organizers in 2016 to provide core grassroots organizing skills to emerging activists and organizers. The organization has since gone on to train nearly 4,000 individuals and hold fourteen intensive community organizing fellowships, with alumni now organizing in states across the country.

All told, Elyssa has trained over 10,000 activists, political operatives, and candidates in the pursuit of social justice and civic engagement. In 2020, Elyssa was recognized for her work by being named one of Washingtonian Magazine’s 40 Women Under 40.