Principal
CurrentAdvisor to non-profits, campaigns, businesses and elected officials, providing strategic planning, program evaluation, and management support services. Examples include:• Executed a $650,000 statewide multi-channel ad campaign and grassroots legislative outreach program for a client in under 10 days.• Developed ballot initiatives in eight states for Every Voice, focusing on money in politics and increasing civic participation. Worked directly with funders, local partners, consultants, and national groups to implement and evaluate programs.• Decisively defeated expansion of casino gambling in New Hampshire by coordinating an unlikely alliance of local business, conservative, progressive, and religious organizations.• Led strategic communications and developed outreach efforts for Faith in Public Life’s coalition of national religious, labor, and immigrants’ rights groups for the 2015 papal visit to the US.• Helped Mike Simmons become the first openly gay Black Senator in Illinois history by managing communications through the vacancy process and ongoing legislative and political support. • Consultant for Terra Costa Howard’s campaigns for State Rep in suburban DuPage County, Illinois where she defeated the Republican floor leader in Politico’s “most stunning” upset of 2018 and expanded her margin in a 2020 rematch.• Advised leadership of Logan Square Preservation as they helped push through a significant new affordable housing development over objections from gentrifying homeowners.
