Category: Leadership
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Ilona Rabovsky
After leaving high school early, I spent several years driving across the United States; settling in a few different places and predominantly working in restaurants. This expanded my perspective on my own experience growing up at the poverty level in Coastal New England, relative to the experiences of others from different identities and geographic locations.
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Nathan Sanders
Nathan E. Sanders is a co-founder of MAPLE and a data scientist focused on using technology as a tool to help vulnerable communities participate in public policymaking. As a civic technologist affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, he co-authored the 2025 book “Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and
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Matthew Victor
Matthew Victor leads digital infrastructure initiatives at Partners in Democracy, where he develops and scales civic technologies that strengthen participatory lawmaking, public deliberation, and institutional trust. He is the co-founder and project director of the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement (MAPLE), a digital public space that enables more transparent, accessible, and constructive engagement with pending
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Katie Giles
Katie Giles is a Managing Partner at Partners in Democracy (PiD), a non-profit organization working to drive democracy renovation nationally by working at the state level, state-by-state. In this role, Katie serves as Executive Director of the Civics and History Inquiry Partnership. The K-12 team aims to prepare teachers to teach in support of a healthy constitutional democracy
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Jerren Chang
Jerren is the inaugural full-time President & CEO of Partners in Democracy. He comes to PID as a dedicated democracy advocate and the co-founder & CEO of GenUnity – an innovative nonprofit supporting the civic learning and leadership development of hundreds of grassroots residents in Massachusetts communities and now a core pillar of PID’s holistic
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Brittany Buford
Brittany Buford is a New England native who specializes in data-driven relational organizing, door-to-door canvassing programs and public affairs. Her teams have previously focused on progressive movement campaigns to create structures of persuasion, advocacy, accountability and issue education. She has worked in campaign management since 2008 on both coordinated campaigns and independent expenditures. Previous campaigns
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John Griffin
John Griffin is the Executive Director of Partners in Democracy MA Action. Before coming to PID, he spent a decade working in Massachusetts policy and politics, including as Massachusetts Policy Director at Democrats for Education Reform. He has experience advising nonprofits, campaigns, and civil society organizations on achieving their policy goals in both Massachusetts and