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A conversation about the future of leadership -- about balancing authenticity with strategy, hard work with rest, and boundaries with vulnerability -- with Amanda Litman, cofounder and president of Run for Something and author of When We're in Charge: The Next Generation's Guide to Leadership.
Takeaways:
- Leading in this moment is hard -- it's not you, it's structural
- Self-awareness gives you the ability to be authentic and still boundaried
- Work deserves your real self, but not your full self
- Rest makes you better
- You do not have to sacrifice efficacy for compassion or compassion for efficacy
Bio:
Amanda Litman is the co-founder and president of Run for Something, which recruits and supports young, diverse progressives running for down-ballot office. Since launching in 2017, RFS has elected more than 1500 leaders across nearly all 50 states, mostly women and people of color, and built the largest pipeline of potential candidates on the left.
She’s also president of RFS Civics, a 501c3 that works to end the gerontocracy.
Shortly after launching Run for Something, Amanda wrote a book, Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself, published by Atria in 2017.
More recently, Amanda published When We’re in Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership (Zando/Crooked Media Reads) in May 2025.
Politico named Run for Something (and Amanda!) one of the 50 ideas driving politics in 2018. Bloomberg called her one of the people to watch in 2019. Fortune named her to their annual 40 under 40 list in 2020.
In 2022, Amanda was one of the Time NEXT 100, a list of 100 rising stars from around the world. She was also a 2022 Dial Fellow at the Emerson Collective.
Before launching Run for Something, Amanda worked as a digital strategist — she served as email director on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the digital director for Charlie Crist's 2014 Florida gubernatorial campaign, the deputy email director for Organizing for Action, and an email writer for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
