Rana Altenburg, Arts ’88, is Associate Vice President of Public Affairs at Marquette University. She leads Marquette’s government affairs and community engagement initiatives. She represents Marquette’s priorities at the federal, state, local and tribal levels. In the community, she serves as president of Near West Side Partners and as a member of the boards of directors of Business Improvement District No. 10, Seton Catholic Schools and the Wisconsin Policy Forum. Nationally, she serves on the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation Board of Directors and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). 

Altenburg joined Marquette in 1996 and has served as a member of the university’s leadership team since 1998. She previously served as a partner at a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C. 

She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from Marquette and an MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.