Jane Fleming Kleeb

Since December 2016, Jane has served in a volunteer capacity as Chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party. She is the author of Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America, published in 2020. Jane serves on the Executive Committees of both the Democratic National Committee and the Association of State Democratic Committees. Under Kleeb’s leadership, Nebraska Democrats elected up and down the ballot have grown from 500 in 2016 to over 900 in 2023. Innovative programs such as Block Captains, 93-County Voter Guides, Frank LaMere Rural Grassroots Fellows and the Candidates of Color Fund were created under her term. For her years of work in rural communities, Jane was named a Climate Breakthrough awardee in 2023, the highest honor in the climate change field. Jane is setting out to create a new project called Energy Builders that works with rural communities to change the economic model of large-scale clean energy projects to benefit the people who live on the land that is creating America’s next 100 years of energy. She currently lives in rural Nebraska with her husband Scott and three daughters– Kora, Maya, and Willa.