Creative Director
Arun Chaudhary
Arun Chaudhary is a filmmaker working in politics. He was the first Official White House Videographer, a position created for him at the beginning of the Obama administration, after being a key member of his 2008 election campaign. In 2016 he was Bernie Sanders’ digital creative director, supervising the video and graphic production for his insurgent Presidential campaign and helping craft content strategy.
Internationally Chaudhary has worked in Kenya, Aruba, Mexico, Kosovo, and most recently helped Italian candidate for the European Parliament, Caterina Cerroni, in her remarkable campaign in the Southern Collegio.
He has been profiled by the New York Times, the BBC, National Journal, Politico, Fortune, and many political websites, and led a Frog design mind seminar at NYU with Fast Company's Ellen McGirt. He lives in Berlin, Germany, with his wife, son, daughter and four cats.
Co-founder | CEO
Jessica Shearer
While managing 290 people on Obama’s presidential campaign, Jessica had a front row seat to a digital political revolution that was accelerating growth and engagement beyond what she had believed possible. Since then, she refuses to allow progressive forces to use yesterday’s tools and strategies. Jessica specializes in turning around tough, even “unwinnable” campaigns. Her accomplishments include flipping swing districts with radical candidates from 2001 to 2018, virtually assembling 137,000 people from 47 countries to discuss the peace movement in Korea, and bringing creative strategies to launch and revive the careers of the world’s most progressive political leaders.
Jessica has campaigned in 20 countries.
Co-founder | Managing Director
Kate Dunham
Kate has been with Social Changes since its founding in 2019. Previously, she spent 12 years in cross-functional management and consulting roles within advocacy organizations.
A problem solver and generalist with a knack for bridging the strategic and the operational, and the willingness to roll up her sleeves, she has often served as an executive-level thought partner and implementation lead on complex projects and new initiatives. For example, she designed, launched, and ran an initiative that identified, developed, and deployed veteran leaders as advocates for refugee resettlement; she took over the creation of a complex, remote case management program within an advocacy organization; and she designed and facilitated a pedagogically-sound training program for grantees working on forced labor issues in India, Albania, and the Philippines.
She has a Masters in Public Administration from NYU Wagner.
Team Builder
Daraka Larimore-Hall
Daraka Larimore-Hall is an organizer, educator, and political activist based in California. Daraka was elected Vice-Chair of the California Democratic Party with 84% of the vote.
Daraka is an expert at three things: team building, political parties, grassroots mobilizing. Daraka is a veteran of the historic grassroots campaigns of Dean, Obama and Bernie Sanders as well as dozens of local and statewide elections.
Larimore-Hall’s focus and expertise is on updating the strategies parties and unions use to develop a grassroots base by making the switch to “big organizing” on all levels. He’s been training trainers and organizers to win campaigns in Europe and the U.S. for the last 20 years.
Strategic Advisor
Annie Weinberg
With over 18 years of experience in progressive organizing, elections, and advocacy campaigns, Annie is a campaign strategist, coach, advisor, writer, trainer and speaker who supports both movement organizations and candidates and their campaign teams in running values-driven, electorate-expanding, people-powered operations towards a more just, reflective democracy. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Nation, ABC, and MSNBC; to date, she has partnered with over 632 campaigns.
Whether that means electing transformative leaders up and down the ballot across the U.S. and Europe; driving cultural and narrative shifts around racial, environmental, and economic justice; or winning issue advocacy campaigns for real legislative and policy-based power for working people – Annie helps leaders and organizations invest in strong, conversation-based organizing at scale, get rooted in expansive voter targeting models, and build innovative, strategically aligned programs around clear, shared, powerful theories of change.
Design Advisor
Jacopo Castelletti
Jacopo was a diplomatic studies student until he discovered a passion for the aesthetic side of politics and campaigning.
An activist for student rights since high school, his involvement in design began in the creative staff of Italy's largest student union. In 2015 he designed the electoral campaign of the Student Left in Perugia, bringing it to its first majority after years. He later moved from Emilia-Romagna to Umbria, where he worked on campaigns and social media for progressive candidates and political parties, LGBTQ+ organisations, social events and associations.
A graduate in graphic and motion design, Jacopo is experienced in branding and data visualization and is an advocate for socially responsible design - including in memes, having founded and managed several prominent Italian pages for several years now.
Aside from his day-to-day activities, Jacopo collaborates with the Committee Program, a show focused on the art and science of storytelling in global politics, and digitizes and restores rare and unknown ads and posters in order to make them available to the general public.