Matt manages digital paid media strategy for SKDK clients to help win campaigns and advocate for progressive organizations. He brings a wealth of knowledge after working at several progressive digital firms while formulating winning email fundraising and digital advertising programs for progressive candidates, labor unions, and environmental groups. Matt was a campaign manager for Democratic state level and county level candidates in his home state in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the 2019 cycle and the 2021 cycle as well as being a legislative advocate for repealing Virginia’s Right to Work laws, campaign finance reform, and a Green New Deal for Virginia after returning home from organizing in the Midwest to lobby for clean energy, public housing in DC, and lifting cannabis restrictions nationwide.
Outside of work, Matt serves as the Chief of Staff for Young Democrats of America, on the Virginia Young Democrats Executive Board, an elected member of the 8th Congressional District Democratic Committee, a Public Interest Commissioner on the Arlington County Tenant-Landlord Commission, and a member of the Northern Virginia Labor Federation.
Matt graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia with a degree in Intelligence Analysis and graduated from the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Matt enjoys spending time with his family, his dogs Ryder and Aoife, traveling to new cities, playing music and going to concerts with friends, and being a long-suffering DC sports fan.