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Current Employer	Friends of Bernie Sanders
Current Occupation	Site Lead – Advance
Tagline	Helping organizations create catalyst moments that shape how the people interact with your mission.
Bio	Progressive politics isn’t something I chose, it’s what chose me. I grew up in Livingston, New Jersey, watching three generations of construction workers build our town by hand. My grandfather crafted water fountains that still stand in the parks where I played soccer. My father followed him into carpentry after teaching didn’t pay enough. My mother left her career as a medical technologist to become a special education specialist – not for passion, but for healthcare benefits. Because when I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in first grade, our family economics shifted overnight. We ate Top Ramen and pancakes while my parents quietly hemorrhaged money keeping me alive. Bernie Sanders was the first politician I ever heard name what we lived: insulin costs are criminal, insurance shouldn’t depend on employment, healthcare is a human right. Before I understood any of this politically, the Boy Scouts taught me how change actually happens. As an Eagle Scout, I learned servant leadership – that being in charge means enabling everyone else’s success, not your team enabling your success. I taught that principle to youth nationwide though the BSA, and eventually produced a TED-style program at the World Scout Jamboree giving voices to those from around the world without platforms. I also spent years lobbying within BSA itself for LGBTQIA+ inclusion and opening membership to women. That fight taught me institutions resist change until people inside them refuse the status quo. When Bernie’s 2020 campaign launched, everything converged. I joined as advance staff—the invisible logistics backbone that makes high-stakes political events work. Between that campaign and rejoining for the 2025 Fighting Oligarchy Tour, I worked as an events director and project manager, learning that building movements requires both inspiration and infrastructure. Since then, I’ve maintained advance work with Bernie and brought similar expertise to AOC’s team and Zohran’s campaign. I’ve also worked local races, managed cultural venues, and served as community liaison on major infrastructure projects. Progressive leadership calls me when they need someone who can translate between campaign operations and the communities we’re trying to reach – someone who understands that gathering people effectively is the first step toward organizing them, but building the next steps to keep the momentum going is where a community becomes a movement.
Impact	As a site lead and crowd team member across Bernie’s 2020 campaign and subsequent operations, I’ve worked to refine how progressive campaigns engage communities—not just during events, but in building sustained organizing capacity afterward. I’ve served as event lead in New Hampshire, Las Vegas, and West Virginia, learning that effective advance work isn’t about crowd size—it’s about what happens after the principal leaves town. In Missoula, Montana, when parking limitations threatened to cap attendance for a joint Bernie-AOC event, I organized and led “Bike to Bernie”—a critical mass bike ride that turned a logistical constraint into a community organizing moment. That’s the kind of creative problem-solving that separates good advance work from transformational organizing. My most significant contribution was building the entire community engagement plan for Bernie’s visit to Lenore, West Virginia and the Mine Wars Museum. I designed it as a genuine town hall opportunity—not a rally, but a space for conversation with voters who typically vote red despite their material interests aligning with progressive policy. That visit connected labor history to current economic struggles in a way that resonated far beyond that single day, demonstrating that progressive politicians can speak directly to working people in red communities when we meet them where they are. Throughout this work, I’ve studied past campaign failures and implemented corrections: deploying crowd mics so people are heard, not just talked at; researching local political dynamics before visits to avoid stepping on existing organizing; and most critically, acknowledging the knowledge economy within our own teams. Local organizers understand their communities in ways national staff never will, and pretending otherwise wastes credibility and opportunity. What I’m most passionate about developing is volunteer programming built on the “What? So What? Now What?” framework—training that doesn’t just mobilize people for a single event but equips them to continue organizing after the candidate leaves. I envision this as “A Multichannel Resistance,” showing individuals the many ways they can engage in peaceful yet disruptive political action. Too many campaigns treat volunteers as disposable labor. I want to build systems that turn event attendees into trained organizers who can sustain momentum in their own communities.
Mission	I want to build the volunteer program I’ve been envisioning—one that fundamentally changes how progressive campaigns think about grassroots engagement. The “What? So What? Now What?” framework, subtitled “A Multichannel Resistance,” would train people not just to show up, but to sustain organizing work long after national figures leave their communities. I want to create programming that shows individuals the spectrum of peaceful, disruptive engagement available to them—because political revolution isn’t a single action, it’s sustained commitment across multiple channels. I’m looking for new teams to call home in this interconnected family of progressive politicians fighting for working people. I want roles where I’m building organizing infrastructure, not just executing logistics. The expertise I’ve developed—crowd coordination, stakeholder translation, community engagement in unlikely places—is valuable. But I didn’t get into this work to remain invisible infrastructure. I got in because families like mine keep getting squeezed while those responsible get richer. This cycle, I want to work with campaigns and organizations that understand good organizing converts attendance into sustained capacity. I want to help progressive candidates recognize that winning in red communities is possible when we meet working people where they are, honor their lived experience, and connect their struggles to our solutions. I want to be part of campaigns that invest in volunteers as future organizers, not just event-day labor. Long-term, I’m interested in building the kind of organizing infrastructure that outlasts individual campaigns. The progressive movement keeps reinventing the wheel because we don’t invest in institutional memory. I want to help change that—whether through formalized training programs, documentation systems that capture what works, or new organizational models that retain knowledge cycle to cycle. I’m not trying to be the candidate. I’m trying to make it so that when the right candidates emerge from working communities, they have the infrastructure, training, and sustained volunteer capacity to actually win—and to govern effectively once they do.

Work History

Employer	Higher Ground
Occupation	Venue Staff

Employer	The Essex Experience
Occupation	Director of Events; Production Manager

Employer	HNTB
Occupation	Community Liaison

Employer	Bernie 2020
Occupation	Site & Event Lead \| Advance Staff

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