An experienced coach, political leader, and public speaker, Beth Fukumoto works with civic-minded leaders and organizations to build leadership capacity, overcome obstacles to growth, and adapt to changing political environments.
You can read Beth’s most recent piece, “I was a Republican, and I drew my red line too late” in the Washington Post.
After a decade in politics, Beth spent the past two years as a leadership coach at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she also joined the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation as a research fellow. Beth’s research, writing, and speaking engagements focus on public leadership, partisan politics, and the future of democracy.
Prior to her work at the Harvard Kennedy School, Beth was the youngest woman in the United States to lead a major party in a State Legislature and a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives. In 2018, Beth was named one of Apolitical’s 100 of the “The World’s Most Influential Young People in Government” after she was stripped of her title for making a speech criticizing President Trump at the Hawaii Women’s March.
Today, Beth speaks and writes extensively on civic engagement, women in power, and public leadership and coaches individuals and groups interested in public leadership, politics, and social change.