Polly L. McKinney

Voices for Georgia’s Children

Polly has been advocacy director at Voices for Georgia’s Children since 2010. Additionally, she owns a strategic communications company, Long Game Strategies, LLC, allowing her to enhance and continue her work at Voices, while creating content for clients and causes akin to child policy. She serves on the Georgia School Based Health Alliance Board, is a member of the National Juvenile Justice Network and is past Chair of the ChildKind Board of Directors. Polly also serves on the Juvenile Justice State Advisory Board, an appointment made by Governor Nathan Deal. She is a member of the Annie E. Casey Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative state steering committee. Prior to her work in child policy, Polly was responsible for developing communications for Southern States Energy Board, served as Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Georgia and spent more than two decades in various production capacities in the Georgia film industry, which included two regional Emmy nominations and the writing and production of the introductory film at the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site. She was a member of the first class of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has two astounding kids, Skye and Zane.