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Elizabeth "Nicki" Richardson
Clifton Park
Summary
Experienced political operative with experience in staff supervision, program development, fundraising, and advising large scale organizations on political strategy.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Political Director
New York State United Teachers
05.2023 - Current
- Supervise a team of ten unionized employees around the state
- Manage 12 million dollar political action fund
- Drive the political agenda of the organization
- Support organizational issue advocacy through mobilization
- Recruit and train organization members to run for all levels of office, electing over 700 to local school boards across the state, as well as State Assembly, State Senate and US Congress
- Manage, interpret and make recommendations to stakeholders using political data
- Created, implemented and led campaign plans for issue based campaigns, electoral campaigns, and legislative lobbying campaigns
- Elected 91% of endorsed candidates for school board, passed 97% of school budgets, including multiple overrides, and supervised the organization's involvement in nearly 600 electoral races.
- Chief negotiator for management - successfully negotiating three collective bargaining agreements.
Deputy Political Director
New York State United Teachers
02.2015 - 03.2023
- Manage organization's in house polling center, including fifteen call center agents.
- Led efforts to create a member to member training program for organization members seeking to run for office.
- Grew a the political action fund over 24% - raising nearly 12 million dollars annually
- Supervise a team of over 100 member activists engaged in politics and fundraising efforts of the organization
- Part of team that led the organization's initiative on: response to Janus v AFMSCE SCOTUS decision, the constitutional convention, the NY equal rights amendment, efforts to fix tier 6
Business Agent
New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council
03.2012 - 02.2015
- Primary duties included: representing members, filing and resolving grievances, implementing collective bargaining agreements, overseeing in the date-to-date operations of the update offices of the organization
- Successfully passed resolutions in support of various contract campaigns in: Albany Common Council, Albany County Legislature, Troy City Council. Additionally, recruited public support from dozens of state and federal leaders.
- Supervised a team of member organizers charged with building the organizations volunteer base to mobilize in support of priority issue, electoral and contract campaigns
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Music And Religious Studies
Lawrence University & Conservatory of Music
Appleton06-2006
Skills
- Coalition Building
- Data management and analysis
- Government relations
- Issue advocacy
- Grassroots mobilizing and organizing
- Lobbying
- Executing large scale and budget campaign plans
- Proficient in: VAN, LAN, Catalist, Action Network and similar voter management platforms
Accomplishments
City and State Top 40 Under 40 (2020)
Interests
Timeline
Political Director
New York State United Teachers
05.2023 - Current
Deputy Political Director
New York State United Teachers
02.2015 - 03.2023
Business Agent
New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council
03.2012 - 02.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Music And Religious Studies
Lawrence University & Conservatory of Music
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