Eamonn Donovan
Granite Falls,NC
Summary
Experienced Campaign Director eager to organize and advance pragmatic agendas. Offering decades of experience with NGO's and political campaigns at the highest levels. Skilled problem-solver, planner, coalition organizer and consensus builder.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy Director, Government Relations
MassEquality
- Responsible for building and maintaining a coalition of private business and nonprofit organizations that support marriage equality.
- Lobbied state lawmakers and their key influences to vote and speak out against a discriminatory bill that would put the equal rights of married persons to a plebiscite on the 2008 election ballot.
- Organized events, rallies and press conferences in support of marriage equality.
Political-adviser
Voto - Venezuela
11.2016 - 11.2023
- Primary responsibility was to advise members of the political opposition on how to restore free elections in a single-party dictatorship and work to implement these strategies.
- Helped plan and implement a free and fair primary election across Venezuela that was successfully held in October 2023 with a turnout of over 2.5 million voters.
- Recruited members from competing opposition parties and ideologies to build a new pro-democracy coalition.
- Advised on strategies to negotiate with an authoritarian de facto government to allow the 2023 primary to be held
- Built an alliance of opposition politicians and officials to coalesce under a single coalition banner, put aside political differences and run for office under a unified pro-democracy ticket
Consultant, Rural Voter Outreach
Mauricio Macri For President
04.2015 - 12.2015
- Consulted then Mayor Macri and Senator Gabriela Michetti’s campaign on strategy during the first-round and runoff elections for Argentina’s Presidency.
- Advised on a centrist message with elements of change from the incumbent regime.
- Identified and advised on campaigning in provinces where the Peronist Party was in decline.
Campaign Consultant,
Henrique Capriles Radonski For President
12.2011 - 12.2014
- Consulted for the opposition candidate and incumbent governor of Venezuela’s most populous state against Acting President, Nicolas Maduro.
- Oversaw GOTV efforts in Venezuela’s second most populous state of Zulia, the City of Maracaibo, and other eastern Venezuela states and cities.
Director of State Affairs
Justice At Stake
08.2007 - 04.2010
- Chief state lobbyist for a 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organization devoted to defending judges and reforming the judicial selection process in several states.
- Organized grassroots and grasstop campaigns concentrated in Wisconsin and West Virginia.
- Monitored all legislation from several states for the need to take possible action.
- Testified before legislative committees about alternative judicial selection processes.
- Assisted in crafting bills in several states regarding the ethics of judges and proposals to change judicial selection procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Salisbury University
Salisbury, MD05.1997
Skills
- Coalition Building
- Organizing
- Lobbying
- Strategic Planning
- Consulting
- Campaign Management
- Fundraising
Timeline
Political-adviser
Voto - Venezuela
11.2016 - 11.2023
Consultant, Rural Voter Outreach
Mauricio Macri For President
04.2015 - 12.2015
Campaign Consultant,
Henrique Capriles Radonski For President
12.2011 - 12.2014
Director of State Affairs
Justice At Stake
08.2007 - 04.2010
Deputy Director, Government Relations
MassEquality
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Salisbury University
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