Press Kit

Jane Fleming Kleeb is an experienced grassroots organizer, political strategist, author, and nonprofit entrepreneur who has spent her career building Democratic power in the places the party too often overlooks.

In February 2025, Jane was elected by state party chairs and vice chairs from across the country to serve as President of the Association of State Democratic Committees, representing all 57 state and territory parties and Democrats Abroad. She also is a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. She ran on a direct argument: Democrats can no longer operate as a battleground-state party, where funding and focus go to seven states while everyone else fends for themselves. Blue, red, and purple states all have elections to win, and the only way to build sustainable power is to speak to everybody across the country.

As ASDC President, Jane is focused on strengthening state parties, investing in year-round organizing, and making sure chairs, vice chairs, and executive directors have the training and resources they need to compete everywhere.

Jane has served as Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party since December 2016 and has been re-elected five times — making her the longest-serving chair in both state parties’ history. Under her leadership, the number of Democrats elected up and down the ballot in Nebraska grew from roughly 500 to more than 1,031. Her team has doubled the number of county parties and launched new programs, including Block Captains, the 93-County Voter Guides, and the Candidates of Color Fund.

Outside party politics, Jane founded Bold Nebraska in 2010, which grew into the Bold Alliance — a network of “small but mighty” coalitions in rural states working to protect land and water. She became a central figure in the successful fight to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, bringing farmers and ranchers together with Native American tribes in what became known as the Cowboy Indian Alliance. She organized 12 tipis on the National Mall, built a clean-energy-powered barn on the proposed pipeline route, and hosted Harvest the Hope, Nebraska’s largest advocacy concert, in a cornfield with Willie Nelson and Neil Young.

In 2023, Jane was named a Climate Breakthrough awardee, the highest honor in the climate field, for her work in rural communities. She is using the award to build Energy Builders, a project creating a new economic model for large-scale clean energy so the people who live on the land share in the wealth it creates.

She is the author of Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America (2020), and has been profiled by PBS in the short film “Blue Wind on a Red Prairie” and by The New York Times Magazine. She has been a regular contributor on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News.

Jane got her start in party politics as Executive Director of the Young Democrats of America from 2004 to 2007, where she ran the first-ever national youth coordinated campaign and created the “hangouts and home” model of young voter outreach. She went on to co-found the DNC’s Youth Council and serves as one of MTV’s Street Team Reporters. As Nebraska State Director of SEIU’s Change That Works project from 2008 to 2010, she brought together advocates, faith leaders, doctors, farmers, ranchers, and small business owners to help secure a key vote for passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Jane holds a B.A. in religious studies from Stetson University and an M.A. in international training and education from American University. She is a former elected member of the Hastings School Board, was a founding board member of Our Revolution and Rural Democracy Initiative. Jane currently sits on the Equation Campaign and Jane Fonda PAC advisory boards.

She lives in rural Nebraska with her husband Scott and their three daughters, Kora, Maya, and Willa.