Internship
Thousand Oaks, California
My work was for the campaign in California's 26th Congressional District, my home district, which was among the most-watched swing districts in the nation in the 2012 election cycle. My work was primarily in direct voter contact - cold calls, answering machine messages, and in-person canvasses. I utilized both manual call sheets and automated dialers, and was so noted for my on-the-job diligence that I was given what was intended to be a weekly award for quantity of work completed, for all six weeks it was offered, even being permitted to take the award home after the campaign concluded. Through a full team's hard work, this open Congressional district was won by now-Rep. Julia Brownley, who broke a single-party hold on the seat that had lasted seventy years.