Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Matt’s involvement in politics began in college with the Purdue Organization for Labor Equality, where he organized to promote fair labor practices around collegiate licensing. He spent the 2004 election at the United Steelworkers headquarters, but after enduring the election cycle’s devastating losses, he temporarily retired from politics.
In
2008, realizing that his love of analysis and optimization would be put to good use in the Obama campaign, he became the Data Director of Indiana where he did the nearly impossible - turning the deep red state blue for the first time since 1964 (but not the last!).
Since 2009, he has worked as the Senior Political Strategist at the AFL-CIO, developing groundbreaking analytics and helping state- and local-level campaigns make data-driven decisions. During his tenure at AFL-CIO, he grew the analytics department to six times its size in less than four years.
As a high schooler, Matt’s team won the National First Robotics Competition. He promises to not replace himself or his team with Quentin Tarantino-inspired machines.
