Who We Are

Kelly (she/her/hers) comes to the role of Executive Director with a fierce passion for progress and over 15 years of experience making change in government, with the labor movement, and through winning ballot measure campaigns. Before assuming the role of Executive Director, Kelly was The Fairness Project’s Director of Policy and Partnerships for over four years. In that position she worked with our people-powered campaigns from start to finish to ensure their success, pitching in on everything from drafting ballot language to knocking on doors on Election Day. Kelly was the architect of The Fairness Project’s work expanding Medicaid in seven states and her passion for health policy has meant expansion of healthcare to over 1 million people. Kelly worked on Capitol Hill during the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act, and then served in President Obama’s administration helping to implement the law. She’s worked directly with labor unions, health care systems, and progressive think tanks to improve access to high quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans.

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Alex (she/her/hers) brings a collaborative, detail-oriented approach to her role as Development Manager, with extensive experience in major gifts fundraising, donor relationship management, and development operations. Prior to joining the Fairness Project, Alexandra served at the Democracy Alliance, where she led the Partnerships department and supported strategic donor engagement in service of a just, multiracial, feminist democracy that works for all.

Previously, Alex supported the next generation of campaign fundraisers at the National Democratic Training Committee, where she managed the organization’s Staff Academy finance program. She also brings campaign finance and compliance expertise from her time at Capitol Compliance Associates, where she managed FEC reporting and fundraising operations for House and Senate campaigns.

Alex is driven by her career beginnings in reproductive health counseling and community organizing; experiences that continue to inform her people-centered approach to development work and her commitment to equity, care, and collective action. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a certification in Industrial–Organizational Psychology from Harvard University.

Alexis (she/her/hers) brings a diverse background of experience to The Fairness Project, where she works to ensure that our national programs are on track to win online and in the press. Prior to joining The Fairness Project, Alexis led the first-ever mobilization department at the DCCC, spearheading digital organizing efforts across 80+ congressional races for the 2020 election cycle. Alexis has also led digital programs at the national, state, and local level for competitive races up and down the ballot. She served as the Mobilization Director for US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s 2020 presidential campaign and the Digital Director for the Arizona Democratic Party in 2018. Prior to that, she worked several cycles in organizing, where she built a strong reputation for leading digital-first programs that combined online and offline efforts to build volunteer coalitions, drive voter contact efforts, and deliver results at the polls.

Dan (he/him/his) brings over 14 years of political fundraising experience to the Fairness Project. Prior to joining the Fairness Project, Dan ran his own successful political fundraising consulting firm, helping to raise national resources for Senator John Fetterman and Senator Jon Ossoff, and was directly responsible for raising over $20 million between the two campaigns.

Prior to that, he served as the Deputy National Finance Director for the DCCC, a role that involved extensive travel with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to more than 30 cities to raise more than $260m in a cycle that resulted in Democrats taking back the House. During the 2016 cycle, Dan oversaw the major donor fundraising program for the Hillary for America presidential campaign in Colorado and New Mexico raising more than $12m.

Erin (she/her/hers) joins the Fairness Project with more than a decade of experience as a campaign, government, and nonprofit strategist, with a passion for making communities more equitable. While she started her career as an organizer, EKR has worked in a variety of roles for candidates and causes up and down the ballot in multiple states, with a particular focus on state legislative and pro-democracy efforts. Most recently, she worked for PA Alliance Action and Pennsylvania Fund for Change, where she helped elect a progressive majority to the Pennsylvania State House for the first time in twelve years.

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As Deputy Executive Director, Hannah (she/her/hers) oversees TFP’s campaigns and communications departments while concepting, planning and implementing strategic growth initiatives for the organization. 

Hannah joined TFP in 2019 after spending more than a decade leading candidate campaigns and progressive coalitions. Since then, Hannah has overseen dozens of victories at the Fairness Project across more than a dozen states. She has played a central role in the organization’s expanded footprint, charting a strategic path that has broadened its impact and fueled substantial budgetary and programmatic growth. An early champion for using ballot measures to go on offense for reproductive rights in the wake of the fall of Roe v. Wade, she served as a central leader on the subsequent campaigns that have enshrined reproductive rights into the constitutions of four states (and counting!). As conservative forces have begun to ramp up attacks on the ballot initiative process, Hannah has become a central figure in the fight to protect, strengthen and expand direct democracy in the United States.

Hyacinth (they/them/theirs) is a Regional Campaigns Director at The Fairness Project, where they partner with state and local coalitions to design and execute winning ballot initiatives across the country. Hyacinth has worked on 11 (all winning) measures for Fairness Project — including abortion access (MI 2022; AZ 2024), Minimum wage/Paid Sick Leave (NE 2022; MO 2024), Medicaid expansion (SD 2022), and Policing Reform (Cleveland 2021; LA County 2022). Previously, Hyacinth led Candidate Services at the Texas Democratic Party, supporting more than 1,000 candidates up and down the ballot.

Kai (he/him/his) is a Regional Campaigns Director at the Fairness Project. Prior to joining Fairness, he served as Campaign Manager for Philadelphia Councilmember Jamie Gauthier’s successful 2023 re-election. During the 2022 midterm elections, he was Deputy Organizing Director for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. He was one of the leaders of the team that bucked national trends and flipped a U.S. Senate seat for John Fetterman, elected Josh Shapiro governor, and flipped the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years. He was previously the Federal Climate Campaign Manager for Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, New York League of Conservation Voters, New Jersey LCV, and Maryland LCV, where he led four statewide campaigns to pass the largest climate change bill in US history: the Inflation Reduction Act. Before joining LCV, Kai worked as a Regional Relational Organizing Manager for the Democratic National Committee, where he was part of a team that built a groundbreaking, nationwide relational organizing program to elect Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Democrats down the ballot in 2020. In addition to his work in political campaigns, Kai has extensive experience in community organizing and leadership development with a variety of organizations. He has coached public narrative and organizing with Marshall Ganz, the Formerly Incarcerated Peoples and Families Movement, the Recovery Advocacy Project, the Bloomberg City Leadership Initiative, and other organizations since 2015. He is a graduate of Deep Springs College and Harvard College, where he was a Gardner Fellow and a Mellon Mays Fellow.

Kyle (he/him/his) is a Regional Campaigns Director at the Fairness Project, where he serves as a strategist for statewide ballot measure campaigns. Kyle partners with coalitions to guide measures through policy development, viability, qualification, and winning at the ballot box. During his time at The Fairness Project, he has helped to secure landmark victories that have expanded access to health care, defended direct democracy, and advanced economic justice.

Prior to joining the Fairness Project, Kyle led paid media for Tom Steyer’s Need to Impeach campaign, was a political desk at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee IE, served as Caucus Director for the New Mexico Senate, and managed federal candidate campaigns in multiple states across the country.

Melodía (she/her/hers) is a 6th-generation Texan bringing over a decade of experience in community organizing, campaigns, electoral politics, and legislative advocacy nationwide. Melodía’s past roles include serving as the Texas State Director for the Human Rights Campaign, where she advanced and defended pro-equality policies and worked to elect pro-equality leaders. Before HRC, she led operations for PPFA and PPAF across California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Puerto Rico, advancing and defeating legislation, strengthening communities, and winning key elections. In 2020, she helped secure HRC’s historic electoral wins. In addition, she has successfully championed community engagement and advanced pay equity and age-friendly policies on behalf of AAUW and AARP. Deeply committed to the power of community, agile organizing, and empathetic partnership, Melodia works every day to advance equality. When she’s not organizing, you can find her enjoying a good book, her animals, or dancing.

Nicole (she/her/hers) brings more than seven years of operations experience to the Fairness Project, specializing in building empowered and engaged teams, creating a positive culture, and streamlining operational processes. Previously supporting teams at non-profits, for-profit progressive firms, and at the State Department, Nicole works to remove the barriers that impede impact and build operational infrastructure to ensure organizations have a solid foundation to thrive and reach their highest potential. Nicole is a graduate of James Madison University, where she studied political science and Spanish.