The Great Battlefield

Pamela Shifman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role as President of Democracy Alliance, a network of philanthropists, labor unions and organizations that support progressive organizations working to build power.

Erika Harrison joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an attorney in employment law and creating Black Girls Who Brunch, a set of food and politics social media sites that educates her following.

Rich Kotchmar joins The Great Battlefield to talk about his political organizing firm, Kinetic 21 and building a new AI and map powered organizing tool called Groundview.

Jonah Seiger joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career building communication agencies and now as an adviser, investor and founding partner at Fuse Strategy Group.

Brad Woodhouse joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and how Protect Our Care is working to protect the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid from repeal, cuts and sabotage.

Dan Barkhuff and Matt Hanauer join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their careers and building Civly, an AI platform for progressive candidates and organizations that provides opposition research, donor prospecting and polling.

Nick Van Zandt joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a US Army Intelligence Officer and co-founding Unruled Masses, a nonprofit focused on fighting corruption while facilitating peaceful civic engagement.

Ray La Raja joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst and his book "Small Donors in U.S. Politics: Myth and Reality".

Ian Fisk joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his role at Mentor Capital Network, a nonprofit global network that helps early-stage for-profit mission-driven entrepreneurs.

Alexis Goldstein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in finance before joining the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and then getting ousted by DOGE and now running for Congress in Maryland.

Vincent Jones joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at Beyond Impact, where they support leaders and organizations to build power and advance policies that work to bring equity and justice.

Cole Leiter joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, both in campaigns and in government and his role as ED at Americans Against Government Censorship, where they're helping to defend organizations against attacks by the Trump administration.

Michelle Kuppersmith joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career working to expose corruption and her role at Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit watchdog organization working to hold the powerful accountable.

Jesse Hassinger and LaToia Jones join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how the employees of Hustle (a peer to peer texting service), purchased the organization and where they see it going.

Jed Alpert joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Mobile Commons (one of the earliest political texting platforms), selling it and recently buying it back and how he plans to lead Mobile Commons in a new technical age.

Heather Nelson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in business education and now building Poll The Vote, a nonpartisan platform connecting people to their elected officials.

Chuck Borges joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in the military, data science, calling out the DOGE data breach at the Social Security Administration and running for State Senate in Maryland.

Aisha Coffey joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about working at the FDA before it was attacked by the Trump administration and why she joined FWAD (Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy), a coalition that supports federal workers to uphold their oath by protecting the public good.

Nick Richardson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about running digital media programs at the DCCC and founding Context, a tool to make better decisions on social media spending and to identify trends online that impact a paid media budget.

Liam Kerr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in social entrepreneurship and co-founding Welcome, where they're building a community of Democrats focused on winning majorities, reducing polarization and governing well.

Nic Zateslo returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about regulating AI and building tech for his campaign to run for Congress in Florida.

Tom Carroll joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about co-founding Convos, where they're building an AI based texting tool that facilitates two way conversations between campaigns and causes and their supporters at mass scale.

Aubrey Cox Ottenstein joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, running Globally, a nonprofit focused on public service careers and co-founding Hilltop, where they're building an AI tool to enable constituents to deliver personalized messages directly to lawmakers.

Jaclyn Friedman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as an activist, advocate and organizer and founding EducateUS, a group that is working to transform sex education for good.

Craig Dorfman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career as a teacher before getting into politics with Mandate Media and eventually purchasing the firm with a coworker. Mandate Media is a political consultancy for Democrats that specializes in digital strategy and email fundraising.

Greisa Martinez Rosas joins The Great Battlefield podcast to share her struggles with our immigration system and working her way up to Executive Director at United We Dream, a youth led immigration group with more than a million members.

Dan Castleman joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at Clarity Campaign Labs, a political data science firm that helps progressive campaigns and organizations through customized polling and analytics.

Kevin Holst joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and his role at the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association, where they recruit, support and elect Democratic Lieutenant Governors.

Akaya Windwood joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career, being President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years and her book "Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times".

Tom Perriello joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career and his run to represent Virginia again in the U.S. House.

Michael Lahanas-Calderón joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role at Inequality Media, where their mission is to engage and inform the public about economic inequality and imbalance of power.

Paul Westcott joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in media and his role at L2, a nonpartisan political and commercial data company.

Mikey Dickerson returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his firm Layer Aleph, which helps enterprises through technical crises, and his new book "Crisis Engineering: Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity".

Emily Suttle-Braun joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and founding Doodle Mom Strategies which provides outsourced sales assistance to political tech companies and related enterprises.

Nathan Chappell joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career, how he's working to bring AI to nonprofits and founding Fundraising.AI, a think tank that promotes responsible and beneficial AI for Fundraising.

Megan Clasen and Patrick McHugh join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about founding Gambit Strategies, a digital media firm specializing in persuading and mobilizing voters by defining candidates, causes and issues.

Alex Salerno joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and her role at Civitech, where they use data to target and engage unregistered Democratic voters.

Dan Cantor joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics, co-founding The Working Families Party and his role at the Center for Ballot Freedom, where they advocate for fusion voting, which allows a candidate to appear on the ballot as a nominee of more than one party.

Ash-Lee Henderson joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in activism, being the first black woman to serve as Co-Director at Highlander Education and Research Center (the storied movement school in Tennessee) and founding Utopian Visions, where they're building web tools and curricula for power building.

Shaughnessy Naughton returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's grown 314 Action, where they recruit, train and elect Democratic Doctors and Scientists to help defeat Trump's agenda.

Tara McGowan returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about how she's grown Courier, her media and news company, and her new podcast "Gloves Off".

Chris Nolan Joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in journalism and founding Spot-On, where they connect political advertisers to individual voters by placing ads on local news papers.

Dawn Peacock joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career and running the tech side of Campaignalytics, where they've built a software platform that enables the use of an enhanced voter file and related data and analytics for political organizing.

Pete Davis returns to The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about producing the documentary film "Join or Die," which centers around Robert Putnam, author of "Bowling Alone," a nook that documented how Americans are dropping their civic engagement.

Karen Kornbluh joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her tech policy and career including as policy staffer to Senator Obama in charge of the 2008 Democratic Party platform, Ambassador to the OECD, and Senior Advisor to President Biden, deputy CTO, and head of his AI office.

Reverend Susie Hayward joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career as a peace scholar, activist and serving as Minister for Justice Organizing at the Creekside United Church of Christ and being in the middle of the resistance to the ICE surge in Minneapolis.

David Janovsky joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his role as Director of The Constitution Project at POGO (Project on Government Oversight), where they're working to counter the corruption and constitutional challenges posed by the current administration.

Alan Khazei joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career co-founding City Year, which became the model for Clinton's AmeriCorps program, running for US Senate and is currently the Co-Chair of More Perfect, where they're focused on renewing democracy through five pillars including service, bridge building and trusted information.

Chris Talbot joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics starting at Google managing digital strategies, his role at Allied Media where he helps plan media buys and his own firm Talbot Digital, a full service digital agency.

Leena Barakat and Rajasvini Bhansali join The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about their funding group's The Women Donors Network and Solidaire, and coming together to lead a new funder coalition called Block and Build, where they're taking on authoritarianism.

Liz Purdy joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about her career in New Hampshire politics, working on campaigns for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Jeanne Shaheen and starting Reconciliation Media Lab, where she's working to build progressive media infrastructure.