Casey Harden

General Secretary

Casey (she/her) joined the YWCA movement twenty years ago as a young woman and is a testament to the YWCA’s mission to create space for young women to be the leaders that they are, and in doing so, define and contribute to gender equality.

In many executive and leadership positions, Casey worked in the local and national sphere on issues around health and wellness, gender based violence, economic security, racism and social justice, while growing into a professional of administration, strategy, governance and activism.

Casey has shown how to harness a movement that is rich and wide reaching in all of its diversity toward a common goal for collective impact. She joined the World YWCA in 2018 as the Deputy General Secretary and in January 2019 was appointed as the 15th General Secretary. An aspiring astronaut, proud mama, YWCA torch-bearer, passionate about the simple joys of life, Casey believes that young women and girls will lead in realizing the global goal of leaving no one behind.

Read more about her journey here.