The US Embassy in Banjul has announced the possible official visit of Sky Gallegos, Deputy CEO for intergovernmental affairs for the Democratic national convention. This information was contained in a press release received from the Embassy. Mrs Gallegos is a member of the US Department of State Speakers Program.  With the upcoming historic elections set for November 4, 2008, the authorities at the US Embassy aim to highlight the democratic process of elections back home in the US by inviting this speaker to The Gambia.  Ms Gallegos' landmark speech is set for October 14, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, from 10-12pm and 2-4pm.

According to the release, Sky Gallegos most recently served as the Deputy CEO for Intergovernmental Affairs for the Democratic National Convention in Denver.  She worked directly for the Democratic National Convention Committee, which is the committee charged with the planning and production of the National Convention in Denver.  She is also said to be the liaison to all of the elected officials, party officers and distinguished members of the democratic family that attended the convention last August.

Sky's work with state and locally elected officials, the release states, spans the last 15 years and includes senior positions in government, corporate, non-profit and campaign arenas.  

The release went on to say that during the Clinton administration, Sky worked directly with the nation's states and locally elected officials while she served in the office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the White House, the US Justice Department and the Democratic National Committee.  Most recently, Sky is reported to have been a partner with Hilltop Public Solutions, a public affairs, strategic communications and campaign consulting firm based in Washington DC. An experienced campaign veteran, Sky worked in the last three presidential campaign cycles and in off-year and mid-term elections in targeted states for the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

In 2003, the release further stated, Sky was the national political director for the Edwards for President Campaign.  In the general election, she was the California State director for Kerry/Edwards' 04 where she garnered an 11 point victory. And in the 2000 Presidential election, Sky directed the western regional political effort for the vice president, Al Gore.  As Western political director, she developed and implemented the political strategy for 12 western states including the successful campaigns in California, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico and Hawaii.  

Prior to the campaign, Sky was said to have been the Western political director for Vice President Gore's Political Action Committee, Leadership '98 and in 1996, was the deputy political director for the California Clinton/Gore Campaign.

She has also had experience in building and managing coalitions between the public and private sectors to effect legislations.  Sky helped start and then managed Ed Voice, a political advocacy organisation for public school reform in California.  As chief operating officer and political director, Sky worked with the CEO to build a Board of Directors and an Advisory Board which includes business, education, political and community leaders from across the state. In its first two years, Ed Voice had a 99% success rate with the legislation it introduced.

With a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Stanford University, she is a native and resident of Denver, Colorado.