Erin Phillips Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Manage LCV Victory Fund's national political field campaigns to elect pro-environment candidates. Oversee a multi-million dollar budget, coordinate with coalition partners, and work closely with field, mail, and digital consultants to run robust and strategic national programs to mobilize voters. Support and advise LCV state affiliates on their state and local electoral field programs.Oversee year-round advocacy organizing program, Climate Action, in Nevada, New Hampshire, and Virginia. Create grassroots field plans to advance federal and state action on climate, clean energy, and environmental justice, including a multi-year campaign to pass and implement the Inflation Reduction Act. Manage, support, and develop staff and hold teams accountable to metric goals.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

In the 2022 midterm elections, I led LCV Victory Fund's successful $24 million national field program to elect pro-environment U.S. Senators, ultimately re-electing all of our incumbents and gaining one seat to hold the Senate majority.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Led LCV’s grassroots advocacy and organizing program, Climate Action; manage 5 Field Directors and support 5 state teams to engage volunteers and elected officials.In 2020, I ran LCV Victory Fund's $13 million independent expenditure field program across 7 states to elect President Biden and flip the U.S. Senate for Democrats.

New York, New York

• Planned and scaled up a national organizing program for Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign with a team of over 1,200 staff across 30 states that, during the weekend leading up to Super Tuesday, held 2,400 events and knocked on over 500K doors.• Coached and supported 30 State Organizing Directors and 3 HQ Organizing Desks through a rigorous and fast-paced campaign to hire, scale, and manage large teams.• Set daily priorities and built systems at the national scale to set metric goals, measure progress, and hold state teams accountable to goals each week and over the course of their primary elections.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Hired, trained, and led a department with a staff of over 100 people across the state of Iowa.• Built an organizing program from the ground up; opened 17 offices, held hundreds of events, & recruited over 870 volunteer precinct captains for Sen. Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.• Directly managed and empowered 2 deputies; led daily meetings to set priorities and keep the team on track to hitting our goals.• Analyzed data and made critical campaign decisions utilizing data every day.• Produced staff trainings and retreats for managers & organizers to build culture and develop people professionally.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Led the largest midterm coordinated field operation in PA’s history with a total staff of 87 including 3 deputy field directors, 12 regional field directors, 70 organizers, a digital organizing director and an operations director.• Created and managed a statewide organizing program that worked with more than 50 State Leg. campaigns, 16 Congressional campaigns and 2 statewide campaigns; ultimately recruited over 50K GOTV shifts, increased statewide turnout +15% from 2014 to 2018; re-elected a Democratic Governor & Senator; gained +4 seats in the U.S. House and +19 seats in the PA legislature.

Arlington, Virginia

• During the 2016 and 2017 election cycles, I hired, and trained teams of 6-8 field organizers in the Shenandoah Valley and Northern Virginia, respectively, to build a robust organization of volunteers that consistently met or exceeded weekly voter contact goals.• Managed and leveraged political partnerships in my region to build support and recruit volunteers from local Democratic committees. congressional campaigns, political organizations, and college campuses.• Led and executed trainings and workshops to develop the team's hard and soft skills.• Ensured region’s data integrity, managed using metrics, and trained organizers on Votebuilder database.• In 2017 gubernatorial election, my region's volunteers knocked on over 140,000 doors during GOTV (highest in the state), helping to increase turnout in Arlington and Alexandria from the previous gubernatorial election by +10%- twice the statewide average turnout increase.

Charles City, Iowa

• Recruited, trained, and managed 21 precinct- level caucus teams to lead the Hillary Clinton campaign to victory in Floyd and Chickasaw counties in the Iowa caucus.• After the IA caucus, was deployed to two additional caucus states (Nevada & Washington) to execute rigorous Get-Out-The-Caucus (GOTC) efforts in rural, suburban and urban communities, training and launching hundreds of canvassers and phone bankers from volunteer- run staging locations.• Developed volunteer leadership (team leaders, phone bank captains, canvass captains, etc.) to manage neighborhood volunteer teams.• Organized and executed volunteer trainings on caucus process and caucus strategy to maximize number of delegates awarded to Hillary Clinton in each precinct.• Managed localized digital organizing campaigns and created content to generate grassroots enthusiasm.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coordinated and managed planning and execution of high-level NDI Ukraine conferences with 100+ guests, hosting Ukrainian MPs, U.S. officials, and foreign policy experts.• Tracked program expenditures and reconciled monthly field expenditures in program budgets.• Drafted quarterly reports for U.S. and international donors such as USAID, Swedish International Development Agency, and Canadian International Development Agency.• Managed logistics for international election observation mission for 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.

Washington, D.C.

• Researched, tracked, and analyzed legislation related to nutrition programs, agriculture, immigration, poverty-focused international development, and appropriations bills.• Drafted concise and informative fact sheets, action alerts, and news updates for internal and external circulation.• Wrote and contributed to posts on Bread for the World's blog to educate and mobilize members around hunger and poverty issues.

Dayton, Ohio

• Hosted over 150 collaborative peer-to-peer writing consultation sessions to support & guide student writers, developed client skills, and received positive feedback from clients and supervisors.• Tutored clients in citation and source referencing for all disciplines; APA, MLA, Chicago Manual.• Engaged clients in conversations about their own writing, identifying strengths and weaknesses.• Seamlessly adapted consultations for English language learners to target their specific needs.

Dayton, Ohio

• Oversaw 1-2 employees on shift to ensure excellent customer service and product quality.• Accounted for daily earnings and deposited cash in safe, approximately $1000 in revenue per day.• Organized 4 community service events annually for employees & customers, partnering with local nonprofit organizations. • Implemented sustainability initiatives for the cafe including composting and recycling.

Washington, D.C.

• Cataloged over 130 Cold War-era primary source documents from former Communist Bloc countries in content management system for publication in digital archive to be used by researchers.• Performed research independently at the National Archives and Records Administration to complement projects of senior research fellows.• Copyedited the Cold War Project’s publication, comprised of declassified and translated government documents from former Soviet states.• Coordinated logistics for Wilson Center conferences hosting legislators and leading foreign policy experts.

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Wrote institutional histories of departments and units within the University of Dayton.• Compiled, synthesized, and analyzed information to create organized, research-friendly documents.• Performed extensive research in the University archives.• Developed a prototype and set precedents in terms of formatting and content as the first to begin this ongoing project.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, History, Sustainability/ Energy/ Environment

Activities and Societies: University Honors Program, Phi Alpha Theta, Gamma Epsilon Lambda, Flyer Enterprises, Ryan C. Harris Learning.

International Exchange Program In The Netherlands, Nijmegen School Of Management

High School

Okemos, MI