Whitney Hoyt

Whitney Hoyt is currently an administrator at San Rafael High School in Marin where she works with a powerful group of educators. Prior to July 2008, she was the Political Director for NARAL Pro-Choice California, the political leader of the pro-choice movement. Her work included working with legislators and candidates from school board to the state house to maintain California as the most pro-choice state in the country. In addition, she worked with the newly formed PrivacyPAC and connects with elected officials and partner organizations to further NARAL’s mission to ensure that choice and privacy are protected and maintained. She has set up briefings for the new legislative staff in Sacramento and statewide lobby days for constituents to meet with their elected officials and managed a NARAL Pro-Choice California sponsored bill from conception to its untimely death in Senate Committee. Prior to joining NARAL, Whitney’s advocacy work was in public schools where as a principal and teacher she served as a voice for young people for more than 15 years. Her work has focused on non-traditional students including students on probation and those who traditional schools have failed. After graduating from Emerge California: Women Leaders for a Democratic Future in 2004, Whitney ran a successful campaign for Trustee on the Sausalito Marin City School Board where until January 2009 she was the Board President. She was forced to resign when she moved out of the district and even farther into suburbia. As the daughter of lifelong Democrats and social justice activists from Buffalo New York, Whitney grew up believing that the role of government was to be the voice for the voiceless. Although living in a post -partisan world in California, she still believes that being a Democrat really means something.