[1] Amy Dacey graduated from Auburn High School in Cayuga County, New York in 1989.
[5] She then served as the Deputy Political Director on the Democratic Senatorial Committee for the 2002 election cycle;[6] the National Political Director of Keeping America’s Promise, a political action committee affiliated with Democrat John Kerry;[7] the Director of Government Relations at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU);[8] and in 2004 Dacey worked as the special assistant to John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign.
[10] In 2010 Dacey took the job of Executive Director at EMILY's List, an American political action committee that works to elect female Democrats.
[15][16] In one of the DNC emails in 2016, Dacey responded "AMEN" to an email from colleague Bradley Marshall, in which Marshall expressed the belief that Bernie Sanders "is an atheist" (rather than a Jew) and that this could be used as a political issue against him in the Kentucky and West Virginia primaries.
[19] In March 2014, Dacey was the headline speaker at the Democratic Women of Cayuga County’s annual spring brunch in Auburn, New York.