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Summary of Qualifications

Dynamic political strategist with extensive federal, state and local campaign management experience; effective policy and communication skills; exceptional fundraising, personnel and resource management capabilities; unlimited creativity, commitment and passion for people/projects; results-oriented leader with the energy, enthusiasm and expertise to develop and execute bold plans.

Professional Experience

Political Strategist and Marketing Consultant
In addition to working full time on numerous campaigns and consulting on others, for more than a dozen years I produced telephone town hall events for clients across 33 states and 8 Canadian provinces. From candidates engaging voters, to public health officials sharing COVID protection information, Fair Count reaching into undercounted communities and unions connecting more closely with their members, I assisted clients from across a broad base of progressive organizations have thousands of interactive conversations with millions of voters, members, and neighbors. 

Women & Rural Engagement Manager, 2024 GA Presidential Coordinated Campaign

Candidate for U.S. Congress, GA-14, 2022 Primary

City Commissioner, Ward 2, Rome, served 8 years

National Field and Training Director, 21st Century Democrats

•  Trained and deployed more than 500 field organizers across 22 states, managed endorsement process

Southern States Political Director for Bill Richardson, 2008 Presidential Campaign

•  National Surrogate Director and Women for Richardson Political Director

Georgia Statewide Campaigns, Campaign Manager

•  David Poythress for Governor (2010)
•  Max Cleland for Secretary of State (1994)

Congressional Campaigns

•  Sanford Bishop, GA-02 (1996), Campaign Manager
•  Phil Maloof, NM-01 (1998), Field Director
•  Roger Kahn, GA-11 (2002), Deputy Campaign Manager

Georgia Legislative and Municipal Campaigns, Campaign Manager

•  Steve Henson, SD-55
•  George Pullen, SD-52
•  Doug Alexander, Atlanta City Council, At-Large 
•  Mike Polak, HD-67
•  Jackie Saylor, HD-56
•  Bob Puckett, HD-13

Campaign Manager for Beasley Denson, Chief, MS Band of Choctaw Indians

Director of Alumni Affairs/Annual Giving, Berry College

Legislative Assistant/Correspondent for Jim Davis, Member of Congress (FL-11)

Deputy Press Secretary, GA Secretary of State’s Press Office (Cleland/Massey)

National Democratic Party Service

•  Democratic National Committee (DNC), Member Representing Georgia for 13 years

•  Southern Caucus Vice Chair: 4 years 
•  Credentials Committee: 4 years
•  Rural Council and Women’s Caucus Member: 13 years
•  2019 DNC Participant in Taiwan Exchange
•  Delegate to Democratic National Convention:  7 times

•  Democratic Municipal Officials (DMO), National Board Member: 6 years

•  DMO PAC Chair and Political Council Chair 
•  2018 Burgess Award for Exemplary Leadership
•  DMO GA Chapter Founding Board Member

Democratic Party Service in Georgia

•  Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG), Executive Committee Member: 15 years

•  2020 Elector for President: Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris  
•  2021-22 Strategic Planning Committee: Co-Chair  
•  DPG State Committee Member: 23 years 
•  Delegate to the Democratic Party of Georgia State Convention:  8 times

•  Floyd County Democratic Party, Executive Committee Member: 16 years

•  2006 Democrat of the Year
•  Voter Protection Leader: 12 years 
•  Consolidation/By Laws Chair: 2004
•  Floyd County Democratic Association, President: 1 term

•  Fulton County Democratic Party, Member: 4 years
•  Founding Member of North Fulton Democrats
•  Young Democrats of Georgia (YDG), President: 2 terms

•  YDG Executive Committee Member: 6 years
•  1990 Young Democrat of the Year Award
•  Young Democrats of Fulton County (YDFC), President: 1 term
•  YDFC Executive Committee Member: 8 years

Additional Political Leadership 

•  Georgia Municipal Association, Legislative Policy Committee Member:  3 years
•  Georgia’s WIN List, Board Member: 4 years
•  Director of WIN Leadership Academy (2017 & 2018 classes)

Current Boards and Associations

•  GALEO Impact Fund, Board Member and State PAC Chair
•  Rural Voices Georgia Steering Committee, Member
•  Northwest GA Center for Independent Living, Board Member
•  Georgia Conservation Voters, Board Member 
•  Kudzu Vine, Weekly Southern Politics Podcast, current co-host, frequent guest 
•  Persist, Founding Member

Local Boards and Associations  

•  Rome/Floyd County International Association, Executive Committee Member

•  Student Cultural Exchange Leader
•  Rome Representative to Sign “Friendship Agreement” with Kumamoto City, Japan

•  Citizens’ Committee for Baseball, Executive Committee Member
•  National “Pollie Award” for Best Local Referendum or Initiative Web Site
•  Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission of Northwest Georgia, Member
•  Women of W.O.R.T.H. (Independent Health Clinic), Board Member  
•  One Community United, Founding Member

Education

•  Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science (American Politics)

•  Publication:  Co-author with Alan Abramowitz of Georgia chapter in The 1988 Presidential Election in the South

•  Berry College, Rome, GA, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, cum laude: Minors in Speech/Theatre and Mathematics

•  The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, The Fund Raising School: Managing the Capital Campaign, Principles and Techniques of Fundraising, and Enhancing Donor Relations