Peggy Venable has worked in public policy and grassroots campaigns -- in government, the political arena and the private sector -- for more than 30 years.
A native Texan, Peggy has spent 15 years in Washington, D.C., working for three Administrations. During that time, she worked on public policy issues in the areas of education, natural resources, energy and transportation.
Peggy was White House Liaison for three cabinet secretaries including the US Department of the Interior and the Department of Education. She was at the Department of Education when the idea for “A Nation at Risk” was conceived, which was our country’s first “wakeup call” that our education system was falling behind. At the US Department of Interior, she directed the “Take Pride in America” grassroots campaign which encompassed eight federal agencies.
Peggy has served as senior staff at the RNC and directed the Republican National Convention in 1984.
She has worked in political and issue campaigns at the national, state and local levels. It is that experience coupled with her public policy expertise that she has put to work at Americans for Prosperity, a grassroots organization focused on taxpayer protections.
Peggy is Texas director of Americans For Prosperity which has a membership of over 25,000 individuals who support free market public policies. She has served as a taxpayer advocate in Texas for 15 years.
Peggy has guest hosted for syndicated talk show hosts around the Texas, appears as a guest on radio and TV, and has written over 100 pieces that have appeared in leading Texas newspapers, and speaks to groups around the state on tax, budget and regulator issues. Her opinion pieces have appeared in the Houston Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, the Austin American Statesman, Budget and Tax News, Heritage Insider, and numerous other publications. She has won numerous public affairs and journalism awards
She is mother to a 21 year-old daughter who is in college and on the honor society as well as news editor of her college newspaper, The University Star at Texas State University in San Marcos. Peggy held that same position in her college days. Today, Peggy is a contributing editor to the Lone Star Report, on the board of the Texas Center for Education Research as well as Austin CEO Foundation, a board member of the Reagan Conservative Society and is past President of the Texas Women’s Alliance as well as a past President of the Texas State University Foundation Board.