Carolyn B. Maloney

Chair of the Board · ERA Coalition · company speakers →

First elected to Congress in 1992 during the ‘Year of the Woman,’ Carolyn B. Maloney is a nationally recognized progressive leader with extensive accomplishments in financial services, national security, the economy, and women’s issues. She was ranked as the second-most effective legislator in the 117th Congress (2021-2023) and third-most effective in the 116th Congress by the nonpartisan Center for Effective Law Making. Representative Maloney was the first woman to serve as Chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Joint Economic Committee, and the first woman to represent her district in Congress, which she served for 30 years. During this time, she authored and passed over 90 bills, 12 of which had Presidential bill signings, reserved for the most important pieces of legislation. Representative Maloney began her career as a teacher and administrator for the New York City Board of Education. When her program was cut, she succeeded in restoring funding against long odds with tenacity and persistence, which became hallmarks of her career. She served 10 years on the New York City Council where she created and chaired the Contracts Committee, where she took on the Mafia, and became the first woman to give birth while serving on the Council. Representative Maloney is currently serving as the “Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Leader in Residence” at Hunter College’s Roosevelt House, a public policy institute housed at Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s former home. She was recently elected Chair of the Board for the ERA Coalition, which she helped create, and also serves as President of the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Overcoming years-long resistance from the Senate, Representative Maloney authored and passed the legislation creating the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall and now and serves on the museum’s Board of Advisors.

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