Staff + Contact Information

Emily Tisch Sussman

Emily Tisch Sussman is the Executive Director of Young Democrats of America, the nation’s largest partisan, youth-led political organization.

Emily formerly served as the Co-Director of Government Affairs for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an organization dedicated to the free legal representation of LGBT members of the military. At SLDN, she represented LGBT servicemembers through the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

Prior to joining SLDN Emily founded Think Blue, a political organization for young professional Democrats. Think Blue supports young, national Congressional candidates, by encouraging the next generation of leaders to get involved with the political process. For her work with Think Blue, Emily was named one of the “40 under 40 Emerging Leaders in Politics” by New Leaders Council in their inaugural list.

Emily is a member of the New York Bar, and earned her J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, graduating Cum Laude. She holds a Bachelors of Social Work from Skidmore College, where her concentration was in Developmental Disabilities, specifically in adult populations.  She was also recently honored by Cardozo Law School Nathaniel Gates award, and received the award from Truman National Security Project for Extraordinary Contribution toward Advancing the Truman Democratic Word View. 

Sussman has been called “not your typical lobbyist” to which she responds “why would you want to be a typical anything.”

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The YDA national headquarters is located in Washington, DC. To find state and local chapters’ contact information please visit the “find a chapter” section of our site. Information on elected leaders can be found here.

MAILING ADDRESS:
PO Box 77496
Washington, DC 20013

EMAIL: office@yda.org

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/youngdems

TWITTER: twitter.com/youngdems

YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/youngdems

PRESS INQUIRIES:
All press should contact YDA Press Secretary Amanda Narod at press@yda.org

LEADERSHIP LIST:
All of the YDA national elected leaders, state elected leaders and staff members’ contact information is located on the YDA Leadership List which is located on the YDA Member Site. For login information to the member site, please email secretary@yda.org.