Keith Thirion Email & Phone Number

• Oversee program side of the organization comprised of AFJ’s Justice, Bolder Advocacy, and Outreach & Membership programs, setting strategic direction and ensuring programs serve common mission
• Played a lead role in developing strategic plan, leading implementation of all program-related strategies; oversee development of metrics to measure multi-year program impact of strategies
• Develop programs and lead c4 affiliate AFJ Action, including campaign plans, budgets, board engagement, and staff and vendor management
• Lead cross-team campaigns including to confirm Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, urge Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, and others

• Direct AFJ strategies, manage staff, and lead coalitions in national campaigns to increase visibility of the courts and judicial nominations by mobilizing organizations, activists, elected officials and legal elites.
• Lead growth of political arm AFJ Action Campaign by establishing advocacy and electoral strategies; launching initiative aimed at flipping state supreme courts; developing senate accountability projects; and.
• Determine state targeting strategy and build AFJ programs mobilizing state partners in national education and advocacy through coalition-building, press events, and devising state-specific campaign plans
• Lead message testing and implementation of cross-team communications projects, managing consultants to conduct national polling, develop communications materials, and ensure results inform advocacy campaigns
• Direct member program of 100+ organizations, measurably strengthening engagement in AFJ’s core programs and advocacy, and increasing year-over-year dues revenue
• Contribute to shaping organizational priorities as member of senior staff, strategic planning, and equity leadership teams

• Led campaign to pass state transgender anti-discrimination law and defend against a repeal attempt, coordinating the political and organizing strategy, serving as lead spokesperson, and developing media and field.
• Managed relationships with set of PAC-endorsed candidates regarding endorsement process, determining EQMD’s level of engagement in priority campaigns, integrating voter file data, and planning PAC events
• Built and strengthened relationships with elected officials, government agencies, and businesses to advise and advocate for pro-LGBT policies
• Directed long-term programmatic vision and developed grant proposals, including launching Transgender Latina Needs Assessment, outreach for Eastern Shore Advisory Council, racial justice event series, and faith leader.
• Developed multi-level training program on LGBT issues and advocacy, training over 800 people in first year
• Crafted messaging, developed media materials and served as chief EQMD media spokesperson

• Directed field campaigns to advance state and federal clean energy policies and pressure Virginia’s utilities to install renewable energy
• Garnered unprecedented media and public attention, increasing support from legislators
• Directed CCAN Action Fund voter outreach and GOTV strategy to elevate climate change as an election issue
• Set campaign and staff development goals for the organizing team, managing staff to ensure goals were met or exceeded such as mobilizing thousands of on- and offline actions, building coalitions with non-traditional.
• Developed system to rank organization’s power in target legislative districts based on measurable grassroots advocacy combined with creating metrics to quantify influence on and access to legislators
• Planned and executed first-of-its-kind Safe Coast Virginia conference convening coastal stakeholders, leaders and residents with an interest in sea level rise and advancing clean energy solutions in their communities

• Planned and implemented CCAN’s work to influence state and federal legislators, increase public support for renewable energy, and diminish power of largest utility via 3-5 ongoing campaigns, building field and public.
• Led successful efforts to defeat proposed coal plant, including managing the only Virginia campaign to elect a clean energy supporter to the board of a rural electric cooperative, generating earned media, and.
• Managed full-time staff and contract organizers to achieve campaign goals and developed scattered network of supporters into base of hundreds of activists and trained leaders
• Implemented multi-year strategy to cultivate climate champions of supportive legislators and shift key legislative committees to increase support for clean energy policies
• Directed field and engagement work of multiple coalitions, convening diverse stakeholders to implement joint work plans, from environmental to economic and racial justice to consumer protection partners
• Organized over 100 events including campaign protests with hundreds of people and coordinated days of action across the state, panels and presentations, and multiple all-day conferences and trainings

• Contracted through the state legislative session to mobilize constituents in key districts to persuade legislators via phone and e-mail to support state-wide transgender anti-discrimination bill
• Built and maintained relationships with allied organizations to e-mail and phone bank their members
• Created and tracked all online advocacy campaigns, generating over 14,000 e-mails to legislators

• Managed Silverlake volunteer recruitment team to increase daily shift sign-ups from averaging 10-15 per day to over 130, recruiting over 2,200 shifts total
• Coordinated daily phone banks; developed and trained base of volunteer leaders as coaches and trainers to run additional phone banks
• Organized campus Election Day volunteer and GOTV activities

Montgomery County, Maryland

• Initiated volunteer recruitment, field actions and field campaign strategy as first paid campaign staff
• Developed relationships with faith, campus, business and other community leaders to engage in campaign
• Built volunteer base of 133 active volunteers to identify supporters and host house parties
• Trained new organizers and volunteer leaders

Washington, DC

New York, New York