Experience
Digital Media Director – January 2018 to February 2020
I mobilized voters in the 2018 election via a social media ad-targeted advance ballot campaign, smashing through turnout records and winning both a three-way gubernatorial election and Democrats’ first congressional race in a decade, coming within less than a percentage point of flipping half the congressional delegation.
I spearheaded communications, digital, and mobilization campaigns encompassing in-house email operation, press releases and rapid response, social media engagement, video and graphic production, website coding and development, online advertising, print materials, and party strategy; co-drove web store creation; and wrote a weekly agenda newsletter to party leaders and voters.
I mobilized voters in the 2018 election via a social media ad-targeted advance ballot campaign, smashing through turnout records and winning both a three-way gubernatorial election and Democrats’ first congressional race in a decade, coming within less than a percentage point of flipping half the congressional delegation.
I spearheaded communications, digital, and mobilization campaigns encompassing in-house email operation, press releases and rapid response, social media engagement, video and graphic production, website coding and development, online advertising, print materials, and party strategy; co-drove web store creation; and wrote a weekly agenda newsletter to party leaders and voters.
During my tenure, the Kansas Democratic Party consistently outraised the Kansas GOP in individual online contributions, often by tenfold. I grew monthly organic engagement on Facebook and Twitter by approximately 500% and 1,300%, respectively.
When Republicans in the last few weeks before the 2018 election blatantly tried to suppress the vote in Dodge City by moving the city’s one polling place – already serving 11 times the average amount of Kansas voters – more than a mile away from the nearest out-of-town bus stop, I led the Kansas Democratic Party response. In 17 days, we raised $89,000 across 46 states and D.C. and signed up almost 860 volunteers specifically to fight voter suppression in Dodge City and across the state. All the funds we raised, the bilingual canvassing and organizing leading up to Election Day, the buses we coordinated, the bilingual digital, newspaper, radio, and TV ads we ran, and postcards we sent increased county turnout by 3.25%. Advance voting in Ford County nearly doubled from 26.5% in 2014 to 52.6% in 2018 – skyrocketing the county encompassing Dodge City to the No. 1 county for advance ballots as a share of the total vote.
View some of my emails and statements for the Kansas Democratic Party.