History as power in the workplace

I quickly saw the disadvantage of lost institutional knowledge between campaign cycles in US politics. The short-term nature of electoral systems clearly prevents staffers and campaigns from building knowledge and benefiting from prior experiences.

Immediately after the 2020 cycle ended, I worked to collect responses from 250+ Democratic recently graduated first-time campaign staffers. I wanted to provide an inside look at working in electoral spaces in hopes of preserving the progressive strength of the election cycle. 

This research kicked off during the same time as I started supporting bringing The People’s Graphic Design Archive from prototype to launch product. The continued thread of documenting histories is essential to building a movement for change. 

In the most 2026 way of saying it, you got to have those receipts.