Billy Wimsatt

Board Member, Founder, & Executive Director

Billy has more than 25 years of experience in journalism, philanthropy, organizing, and social entrepreneurship, and has advised hundreds of donors to strategically invest tens of millions of dollars in hundreds of organizations and initiatives in 48 states, often with crucial seed funding to start and to scale.

Founding and building Movement Voter Fund has been the culmination of decades of work to support movements for progress and social change.

Before launching MVF and its 501(c)(4) sister organization, Movement Voter Project, Billy co-founded several campaigns and has consulted with numerous organizations, including the League of Young Voters, Generational Alliance, Solidaire Network, Student Power, and Rebuild the Dream, and has consulted with numerous organizations including Rock the Vote and Green For All. 

Billy is the author or editor of six books on social change, and his writing has appeared in national publications. He has been invited to speak widely, including at Stanford, Yale, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and MIT’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning.