Key Staff

The Fund's staff are known for our work ethic. We focus on the craft and training of political outreach, and work hard to see each partner's vision come to life. The top 14 staff of the Fund bring over 100 years of experience to grassroots organizing and fundraising.

Key staff include:

Ed Johnson, Citizen Outreach Director
Ed graduated from Duke University in 1990 with a degree in Public Policy Studies. He started as a canvasser with the Fund in 1990. After five years of running canvass offices, Ed oversaw canvass operations in the Southeast and then California for five years before taking over national canvass operations in 2003. In 2007, Ed became the Fund's Citizen Outreach Director, overseeing all canvass, telephone outreach and direct mail operations.  He's based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sarah Gaudette, National Canvass Director
Sarah graduated from Boston College with a degree in environmental sciences.  She has worked with the Fund since 1997, both as a canvass director and regional director.  As a regional director, Sarah oversaw canvass offices in 20 states.  Sarah spent the second half of 2008 with Work for Progress, running the Progressive Future national voter registration campaign and voter contact canvasses in Colorado.  Sarah became the Fund's National Canvass Director in 2007, and is currently based in Boston. 

Nancie Koenigsberg, National Telephone Outreach Project Director
Nancie graduated in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in political science and began canvassing the very next day.  Nancie worked for several years as a canvass director, running offices in Cincinnati, Hartford and New Brunswick.  In 1997, Nancie ran a Donor Development pilot project with the Fund and then became the national director of our Donor Development Program, based in Los Angeles, CA.  Nancie has been in her current role as the National Telephone Outreach Project Director since 2003, and is based in Boston. 

Tate Williams, Direct Mail Associate Director
Tate graduated from the University of Arizona in 2000 with a double-major in Journalism and English.  He worked as a reporter for daily newspapers in Phoenix and Tucson, AZ, before starting with Fund in 2005.  Tate was a canvass director in Portland, OR, for two years before moving to the Direct Mail Department in 2008.  He is based in Denver.

David Wyman, Partnership Program Associate Director
David attended the University of Wisconsin, where he studied Atmospheric Sciences.  David began as a canvasser with the Fund in 2005, and spent three years directing canvass offices across the country.  As the Associate Director of the Partnership Program, David manages our relationship with current partner groups and works to develop new partnerships.  David is based in Washington, D.C.

Pat Wood, Recruitment Director
Pat graduated from the University of Maryland in May 2005 with a degree in History.  He started with the Fund as a canvassser in October 2005 in Madison, WI.  He directed canvass offices in the Midwest for three years, working in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois.  Pat became the Fund's Recruitment Director in November 2008, working to recruit seniors at the nation's top universities to join the Fund's campaign staff after graduating.  He is currently based in Boston.