Anne D. DarConte

Anne DeSeta DarConte, CAE serves as Senior Advisor of HillStaffer, LLC. With more than 30 years of federal, state, and local government relations experience, she advises clients on advocacy strategies and programs including: legislative and regulatory messaging; Hill Days and advocate training; grassroots, grass tops and community outreach; and GOTV efforts. As an ASAE Certified Association Executive (CAE), she has knowledge in the various structural, functional and operations aspects of trade associations and professional societies. Ms. DarConte’s successful initiatives have been recommended as models of best practices.

Ms. DarConte has been an active volunteer serving as Past Chair of ASAE’s Government Relations Professionals Advisory Council, Co-Founder of the Professional Women in Advocacy Conference and Excellence in Advocacy Awards (2013-2015), former Board Member of Women in Government Relations and for PLEN, the Public Leadership Education Network.

Ms. DarConte, who resides in Wake Forest, NC, is the 2020 Recipient of the Association Executives of North Carolina’s (AENC) Bob Slocum Award for Outstanding Government Affairs and Advocacy, and she serves as Vice Chair of AENC’s Annual Legislative Reception attended by over 600 legislators, agency officials, and association executives and governance leaders.