Campaign Management & Elections

Candidate campaigns, independent voter-turnout efforts, field operations, and coalition work across different political contexts and states.

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Campaign Management & Elections

From campaign planning and voter contact to field operations, volunteer leadership, coalition relationships and election-day coordination, effective campaign management depends on the details and the people doing the work.

CAMPAIGN MANAGER · 2026 · YONKERS, NEW YORK

Leslye Oquendo-Thomas for Westchester County Legislature

Campaign management for District 17, coordinating voter-contact programs, volunteers, coalition partnerships, events, campaign communications and election operations. The campaign received 2,087 votes on the Working Families Party line, exceeding the prior district high by more than four times.

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FEATURED CASE STUDY · WESTCHESTER 2026

Turning an independent ballot line into a people-powered campaign

Leslye Oquendo-Thomas ran for Westchester County Legislature District 17 in Yonkers on the Working Families Party line. The campaign combined voter contact, coalition outreach, field coordination, volunteer leadership, and a clear message of political independence. Its final reported Working Families Party tally was 2,087 votes, representing 27.8% of the district vote. The previous district high on that line was 458 votes.

The campaign brought together volunteer leadership, coalition relationships, voter outreach and coordinated field operations.

BEYOND ONE RACE

Candidate campaigns and turnout operations in multiple states

Other experience includes candidate outreach and organizing associated with Mike Goldfarb, Chuck Park, and local campaigns in New York, plus the Colorado Turnout Project and campaign literature design. Responsibilities varied by project, from field support and volunteer coordination to voter contact and event operations.

The work spans candidate outreach, voter contact, training and coordinating volunteers, practical field logistics, message development, and get-out-the-vote execution.

Other candidate campaigns

Work with New York candidates including Michael Goldfarb and Chuck Park, as well as Colorado voter-turnout operations, spanning outreach, field support, volunteer coordination and communications.

Operations that make campaigns work

Candidate and independent turnout operations, voter contact, field organizing, volunteer coordination, event coordination, messaging, coalition relationships, and practical systems for GOTV. Colorado turnout work illustrates this type of electoral organizing beyond New York.

The work behind the results

Campaign Management in Action

Building an operation includes day-to-day decision-making: bringing volunteers together, training canvassers, planning voter contact, handling communications, coordinating coalitions and making sure the campaign can keep moving when conditions change.

Know-your-rights materials prepared for campaign outreach — **Know-your-rights outreach** Know-your-rights materials supporting community outreach.

Photograph from the campaign events archive — **Campaign events** Event organizing and face-to-face political engagement.

Community campaign supporters in an event photograph — **Coalition engagement** Political relationships and organizing across communities.

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Candidate Ballot Access & Petitioning

Coordinating candidate nomination petitions, circulator teams, signature gathering, ballot qualification deadlines and field logistics that help candidates earn a place on the ballot. This is distinct from issue-based ballot initiatives.

ELECTORAL WORK · MULTIPLE CAMPAIGNS

Field strategy and coalition experience

Experience spanning campaign management, field operations, candidate outreach, volunteer leadership and coalition coordination.

Campaign Management

Christine has managed campaigns for Leslye Oquendo-Thomas and Joshua Bristol, coordinating field planning, volunteer teams, public communications, events and day-to-day campaign operations.

Congressional & Candidate Campaigns

Campaign and field experience includes Joshua Bristol and Michael Goldfarb in Brooklyn’s 9th Congressional District, Gabriel Cornejo in Nevada’s 1st Congressional District, and organizing alongside Delgado and Mamdani teams.

Colorado Turnout Project & Campaign Literature

Field and voter-engagement work with the Colorado Turnout Project, including political literature supporting Manny Rutinel for Colorado’s 8th Congressional District and Phil Weiser’s gubernatorial campaign.

Working Families Party organizing

WFP-related work has included candidate support, coalition relationships, volunteer engagement, and candidate interviews in Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties in 2021, as recorded in Christine’s organizing notes. The work connects electoral decisions with policy demands for working families.

Events, trainings and turnout

Practical experience includes recruitment and training, canvassing and phone banks, community meetings, fundraising events, speaking programs, voter contact and GOTV logistics.

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POLITICAL CONSULTING & FIELD PROGRAMS

Frankie Lozada: candidate strategy and voter outreach.

Christine worked as a political consultant for Frankie Lozada, including petition and signature collection, voter engagement and field outreach.

Christine and Frankie Lozada at an outdoor campaign outreach table with campaign literature — **Working in the field** Candidate outreach, literature and conversations with voters.

Outreach and campaign literature at an outdoor field table — **Organizing the program** Staffing, supplies and voter-facing campaign materials.

WHAT CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT INCLUDES

Strategy, people, systems and execution.

Bread & Roses supports campaigns from early planning through Election Day, coordinating the operational, political and communications work that keeps a campaign moving.

Political strategy & consulting

Race assessment, campaign plans, strategic messaging, targeting, budgets, timelines, political relationships, coalition strategy and candidate advising.

Fundraising & events

Fundraising strategy, donor outreach, event planning, ticketing, invitations, volunteer recruitment, program logistics and follow-up.

Field & voter contact

Canvassing programs, phone banks, voter targeting, volunteer training, relational organizing, early-vote programs and GOTV operations.

Campaign technology

Workflows and team coordination using tools such as VoteBuilder, Action Network, voter-contact systems and volunteer databases.

Endorsements & coalitions

Endorsement questionnaires, interviews and preparation, partner outreach, labor and community relationships, and stakeholder coordination.

Speeches, media & communications

Speechwriting and preparation, talking points, candidate briefings, media training, press outreach, debate preparation, literature and digital communications.

Discuss a campaign Speaking & media work