Elyse Rosenblum

About Elyse

• I grew up in a family that put education as the top priority—it was expected that I’d go to college and that I’d use my education to make the world better.
• I earned my bachelor’s degree from Williams College after transferring from the University of Texas—having grown up in Texas, I really wanted to go out-of-state for college.
• After undergrad, I took a break from school and worked in the nonprofit sector, focusing on women’s rights in Washington D.C.
• I decided to go to law school back home in Texas because I saw it as an opportunity to gain more skills and knowledge to help drive equality for women.
• After law school, I worked for a couple of judges before moving on to a big law firm in Washington D.C., but I hated it—I felt like I was on the wrong side of every issue I was working on.
• I moved on to work for a very small female-owned consulting firm that worked on public policy issues, which was a better fit and showed me there are other ways to make change outside of the law.
• Since then, the main consistent in my career has been the drive to create change for more economic equality and opportunity for people who are traditionally overlooked.
• For the last decade or so, my focus has been on helping “opportunity youth”—16- to 24-year-olds who are not in school nor in jobs with a career path opportunity.