Penny Young Nance (née Penny Leah Young) is an author, public speaker and the president and CEO of

Concerned Women for America Concerned Women for America (CWA) is a socially conservative, evangelical Christian non-profit women's legislative action committee in the United States. Headquartered in Washington D.C., the CWA is involved in social and political movements ...

, a conservative Christian organization.

Education

Nance is an alumna of

Liberty University Liberty University (LU), known simply as Liberty, is a Private university, private Evangelicalism in the United States, evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservativ ...

, class of 1988. She has a Bachelor of Science in communications with a journalism/public relations emphasis.

Personal life

Nance was born in Tennessee. Her parents are Rev. and Mrs. Edward Young. Nance is married to William Patton (Will) Nance and they have two children.

Career

Nance is the current president and CEO of Concerned Women for America (CWA). She previously served as a lobbyist and legislative director for CWA. She is the former president of Nance and Associates. She has been a special advisor to the

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on media and social issues. In the 1990s Nance was the fundraising chairperson for Urban Young Life in Washington DC.

Political views

Nance: *opposed the reauthorization of the

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; *called for the defunding of

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; *opposes allowing

transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...

children to use the school bathrooms of their

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; *opposes legislation that would ban workplace discrimination on the basis of

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Patterns ar ...

or gender identity; *strongly supports the State of

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; *is opposed to abortion.

Honors

In 2013, Nance was named one of the "4 most powerful pro-life female voices" by

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In 2016, Nance was awarded an

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in Humanities by Liberty University.

Books

Nance is the author of the book “Feisty and Feminine: A Rallying Cry for Conservative Women".

References

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