Our Team

Salim Shariff

Founder & Partner

Salim Shariff is a father, award-winning digital and communications strategist, and trainer with 13 years of digital experience. He’s managed multi-million dollar ad buys, raised millions of dollars online for progressive causes and candidates, and driven hundreds of thousands of people to take action online and off.

Obet Montalvo

Co-Founder & Partner

Obet Montalvo is a digital strategist and photographer based in Houston, Texas. He got his start volunteering on electoral campaigns in college following the election of Donald Trump. Since then he’s worked across the American South and Southwest, learning the ropes doing everything from managing traditional organizing programs, Latinx coalition-building, to digital organizing.

Juhi Gupta

Partner

Juhi Gupta is a designer and creative strategist with a deep-seated desire and vision for a more equitable world. Juhi began her career in social justice as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, and her background is in design, communications, and marketing for progressive causes — from supporting artists with disabilities to fighting mass incarceration in California.

Shania Stephen

Partner

Shania Stephen is an experienced digital content and communications professional who specializes in strategy, advocacy, and polity in the racial justice and democracy reform spaces. She has led digital campaigns for organizations and electoral campaigns including Black Lives Matter, Reform LA Jails, and Nikema Williams for Congress.

Leo Tafoya

Partner

Leo Tafoya is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary digital creative born and raised in the South Bay of Los Angeles (310) and currently based in Lennox, CA. With origins as a graphic designer and video editor, his 4+ years of experience have included work in transformative justice, first-generation access to higher education, grassroots organizing, cannabis policy, and local and state-level politics. Leo also designed this website!

Sean McFeely

Partner

Sean McFeely is an award-winning digital strategist who specializes in converting online energy into real-world impact. He’s launched dozens of digital programs for Democrats up and down the ballot, raised millions of dollars for progressives, and helped pass laws in Sacramento and D.C.