Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. Field Leadership Staff

Click here to meet canvass leadership staff

Click Here to meet national leadership staff

Click Here to meet on-the-ground staff

Click here to meet some distinguished alumni

Josh Downey
Lead Organizer
Denver, CO

Josh came on board with GCI in October of 2005 working on referendum C & D in Colorado. Following that victory, Josh began organizing for MoveOn.org’s Operation Democracy project recruiting, training, and managing volunteers in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah. In 2006 he oversaw our Denver and Albuquerque Call for Change offices, and currently is Lead Organizer, overseeing staff in Texas, Massachusetts, and Colorado.

Josh got his start in grassroots politics while going to college at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Having experienced the face-to-face, neighbor-to-neighbor politics of the Iowa caucuses, he knew that this was what hewanted to do. However, after starting a small progressive group in Iowa to achieve great things, it became apparent that while he had the passion to effect change, he did not have all the tools. Having come on board with GCI in 2005, Josh can now humbly say that he has flamed his passion for grassroots politics while learning the skills necessary to put his passion to use.

Mike Batchelder
Field Organizer
Boston, MA

Mike currently works as a Field Organizer with GCI on MoveOn.org's Operation Democracy project. His work takes him all over the Upper Midwest to recruit, train and manage MoveOn members to build local volunteer teams and organize press events around issues like ending the War in Iraq and finding solutions to our current Health Care crisis. Mike also worked with MoveOn.org on its 2004 and 2006 election campaigns in Pennsylvania and Ohio to turn out thousands of voters to the polls.

In addition to his work with MoveOn, Mike spent parts of 2004 and 2005working as an Assistant Canvass Director in Boston on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and their fundraising campaign to recruit new small donors. Mike currently resides in the "best neighborhood in Boston," Jamaica Plain.

__________________________________________________________________________