Civic Action Strategies is a team of advocacy experts with decades of direct political and public policy experience in organizing, elections, training, and democracy development. We work closely with grassroots activists, lawmakers, nongovernmental and faith-based organizations, donors, and the media in the United States as well as in dozens of other countries. We are deeply committed to lasting citizen participation and have written and published numerous articles, training manuals, and reports on advocacy, civic engagement, religion and politics, and electoral participation.

Civic Action Strategies was founded by Julie Segal, an attorney who specializes in strategic planning and mobilizing citizen political action. Prior to launching Civic Action Strategies, Julie worked for two years in Kosovo where she directed civic participation and democracy development programs for U.S. and European organizations.

Previously, Julie served as a public policy and political advocate for ten years based in the United States. Her work included two years as a strategy and policy consultant for nongovernmental organizations, assisting them with their legislative and advocacy strategies and helping them more effectively influence the public policy process. She also worked for the United States Congress and served for five years as the legislative counsel for a national nonprofit organization where she built and led a coalition of more than sixty partner organizations. Julie is fluent in Spanish, has taught courses in nongovernmental organizations and lobbying as an Adjunct Professor at American University (Washington, DC), has appeared as a commentator on religion and politics on programs such as NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” Court TV, C-Span, and Univision, and has been profiled in The Indianapolis Star.