



Trust in your calling, make sure your calling’s true
Think of others, the others think of you
Silly rule golden words make, practice, practice makes perfect
I Believe (Berry Buck Mills Stipe)
Walter Ludwig began his political career as a staff volunteer on the McGovern campaign. He left politics in 1988 and founded several successful media and software companies, returning in 2003 as a state director for Dean for America. As principal of TeamBlue Politics, he has been general consultant and/or campaign manager on over two dozen Senate, Congressional, mayoral, city council, judicial and state legislative races. In 2011, he managed the campaign of the first Democratic mayor of Knoxville in three decades. He has also consulted for multiple labor unions.
Beth Becker has brought 20+ years of communication and marketing background to politics where she has consulted for numerous House campaigns, non profits and unions. Beth often can be found conducting trainings about digital strategy for the New Organizing Institute, clients and conferences like PA Progressive Summit and Netroots Nation. As a contributing blogger at epolitics.com and avid activist, Beth shares her knowledge to help the progressive movement use digital with offline to win. She is also on staff at Progressive Congress where she works with Progressive Caucus staffers on digital strategy and manages Progressive Congress News.
Harlan Hill is founder of Code & Politics, a Washington digital politics firm. He got his first taste of politics working in the UK Parliament at age 15. He worked his first campaigns the following year, in Liverpool on the data and field operation of the Liberal Democrat party and back home in South Carolina on a county council race. He went on to start a digital agency working with several dozen clients between Senate, Congressional, mayoral and state legislature races and half a dozen issue campaigns for labor unions and non-profits.
Jay Parmley has served as executive director of more state Democratic parties than anyone in party history. He has been chair and executive director of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, and Executive Director of both the South Carolina and North Carolina parties. He is a former at-large member of the Democratic National Committee and served on its budget and finance committee, and worked at the DNC under Gov. Howard Dean. Parmley is a former president of the Young Democrats of America.