Judi Polson. An American technology expert and social activist, Polson ran projects for IBM from 1981 to 1992, followed by joining Merrill Lynch in 1993 where she rose to Vice President responsible for leading institutional markets technology compliance until 2008. Since 2009, she has been leading technology projects for a European bank.
Polson holds a B.A. from the University of Kansas and an Executive M.B.A. from Duke University.
Polson is currently serving as NOW-NYC Board Chair. Her ongoing service includes prior positions as Chapter Board Chair as well as positions on the National Board representing the Northern District (2016-2018), Chapter Board Member at-large (2010-11), Chapter Vice President of Development (2005-07), and Chapter Board Director of Membership Processing (2003).
As Chapter Vice President of Development, she brought dormant grant applications to fruition and enabled the Chapter to obtain grants more routinely. Additionally, Polson served on various committees including the Employment Rights, Bylaws, and Nominating Board Committees (2008-09) as well as the Women in the Workplace and Repro Rights Committees (2000).
Polson’s contributions to the Chapter extend beyond administration. She led a cadre of demonstrators to the 2017 Women’s March in Washington and the 2018 and 2019 Women’s Marches in NYC.
She participated in the 2013 Lobby Day in Albany for the Women’s Equality Act and its follow-up actions. She led a cadre of demonstrators to the 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington, and in New York City, participated in the 2004 March for Women’s Lives, NOW-NYC’s 2005 Alito and 2007 Viacom actions, and the 2008 Martin Luther King Day march.
She phone banked for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and for multiple local candidates in 2018.
Raised on a family farm, Polson has lobbied state and federal representatives from her native Midwest as well as from New York.
Polson has appeared as Liam Neeson’s sister in the Oscar-nominated Kinsey, in an 2008 online dating video segment for The Onion, which reached “most-viewed” and “most-dugg” status, and as featured background on Saturday Night Live.
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