Joyce Aboussie (born 1957) is the founder and CEO of Aboussie & Associates, a consulting firm in
St. Louis, Missouri
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She is also the founder and CEO of Telephone Contact Inc., a consulting, research and data management firm.
Career
Aboussie has a B.A. in political science from St. Louis University. She was the national vice chair of Congressman
Dick Gephardt's 1988 presidential campaign and previously served as his National Political Director. Aboussie served on the national finance boards for the presidential campaigns of
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
,
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
and
Joe Biden.
In 1983, Aboussie was elected to the National Board of Directors and Governors of
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
In 2006, the ''St. Louis Business Journal'' named Aboussie one of the "Most Influential Business Women." In 1995, she was named by the ''St. Louis Business Journal'' as one of "40 people under 40" who make a difference in St. Louis.
Also in 2006, she was elected as the first woman Chairperson of the
ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Board of Directors and Governors.
In 2015, Aboussie was inducted under the category of Small Independent Entrepreneurship into the Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame of the Center for Entrepreneurship at
Saint Louis University.
References
External links
Joyce Aboussie and AssociatesAboussie and Associates
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American campaign managers
American political consultants
Living people
1957 births
Businesspeople from St. Louis
Women in Missouri politics
Missouri Democrats
21st-century American women