Empower Missouri, a nonprofit whose goal is to secure basic human needs and equal justice throughout the state, announced last week that it has a new executive director.
A year-long search resulted in the selection of Mallory Rusch for the position.
Rusch is expected to lead the nonprofit’s strategic planning, development and coalition-building.
She comes to the organization from Gladiator Consulting, where she supported dozens of nonprofit organizations with fundraising, communications, board and staff development, and strategic planning. She also served organizations outside Missouri, in New Orleans; the District of Columbia; rural Arkansas; and even as far as Brussels, Belgium; and Reykjavik, Iceland.
Rusch said in a news release that Empower Missouri embodies her core values of justice and equity.
She has served in leadership positions with Teach for America, The Mission Continues and the Center for Women in Transition.