Meet the Team

  • Mike Pfohl

    President

  • Amanda Brink

    Executive Director

  • James Herrmann

    Campaigns Director

  • Stan Fils-Aime

    Development Director

  • Sam King

    Head Of Engineering

  • Araceli Villezcas

    Communications Director

  • Sondra Milkie

    Deputy Paid Relational Director

  • Jennifer Johnson

    Operations Manager

  • Mayte Aldrett

    Regional Partner Success Director, Southern Region

  • Rodolfo Parra Jr.

    Special Projects Manager

  • Gabriela Bosquez

    Regional Partner Success Director, Northern Region

  • Ashley Wolsefer

    Ashley Wolsefer

    Partner Recruitment & Success Director

Our Engineering Team

At Empower, we pride ourselves on our in-house engineering team who are dedicated to constantly building, developing, and adding new features to the Empower App, on mobile and web. Our team has nearly 100 years of software engineering experience including at companies like Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon, Firefox, Etsy, Bank of America, and AT&T, as well as the Healthcare.gov fix-it team. Our engineers have founded and led startups, won presidential awards, and championed diversity and inclusion. Now, they bring that experience to make sure the movement to protect democracy has the best all-in-one relational organizing tool on their side.

Our Board

  • "Bubba" Scott Nunnery

    OEF Board Member

  • Analiese Elcher

    OEA Board Member

  • Elizabeth Treviño

    OEF Board Member

  • Jasmine Nears-Biesenger

    OEA Board Member

  • Nick Chedli Carter

    OEA Board Member

  • Toby Miceli-Gwiazdowski

    OEA Board Member

  • Valeria Cerda

    OEF Board Member

Advisory Council

  • Arkesia Jackson

    Advisory Council

  • Emily Isaac

    Advisory Board

  • John Grabel

    Advisory Council

  • Keisha Robinson

    Advisory Council

  • Rhonda Willette

    Advisory Council

  • Saru Jayaraman

    Advisory Council