Education
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Vanderbilt University.
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Vanderbilt University.
She currently is President of the Connect United States Fund in Washington District of Columbia and resides in Jacksonville, Florida, where she is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of North Florida. On June 21, 2012, Soderberg announced that she was running for the Florida Senate District #4, which comprises parts of Duval County and Nassau County, Florida. She writes and comments regularly in national and international media on foreign policy.
She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (1980) and the Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University (1984).
Soderberg was the third-highest-ranking official at the United States National Security Council from 1993–1997 and served as United States Representative for Special Political Affairs at the United States Mission to the United Nations with rank of Ambassador. She was a key adviser to President Clinton in negotiating the peace process in Northern Ireland.
She served as Deputy Director of President Clinton"s national security transition in 1992 and as a senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. In 2007, Soderberg served as a foreign policy adviser to the Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg.
Soderberg was a candidate for Florida Senate District 4 in the 2012 elections.
She ran against Aaron Bean, former Florida State house representative.She ultimately lost collecting only 38% of the vote compared to Bean"s 62%. Soderberg serves as the president of The Connect United States. Fund and as co-chair of the ATFA. In January 2012, United States. President Barack Obama named Ambassador Soderberg as the Chairperson of the Public Interest Declassification Board. The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might, Wiley, 2005. with Brian Katulis, The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return, Wiley, 2008.