Ilyse Hogue

Ilyse is a Senior Fellow at New America, is an expert communicator and campaigner, having focused her career on the effective spread of ideas and action through rapidly evolving information ecosystems. She served in senior leadership at MoveOn.org where she led the communications and advocacy efforts for the six-million-plus member organization before serving as Senior Advisor to Media Matters for America where she grew a sharp instinct for how right-wing narratives move through the information ecosystem. Hogue spent close to a decade as President and CEO of NARAL Pro-Choice America (now Reproductive Freedom for All) where under her tenure, the organization tripled in size. Hogue designed and led initiatives to raise the salience of reproductive freedom in political and cultural discourse, dissecting and leveraging how to undercut its potency as a rallying cry for authoritarian forces. Hogue is the author of “The Lie That Binds,” a bestselling book about how gender was weaponized in service of an anti-democratic agenda in post–World War II America and produced a podcast by the same name. Her work has been published in The Bulwark, USA Today, Democracy: Journal of Ideas, the Nation, Harper's Bazaar, and Teen Vogue Magazine. She's been a regular guest on cable news, including MSNBC, CNN, and Fox.