Geri Prado is the Chief Impact Officer at ActBlue. In this role, she oversees the teams dedicated to building and maintaining relationships in the political and nonprofit space: training and advising, partnerships work, research, and marketplace. She began this role in 2020 after serving as Vice President of State and Local Campaigns at EMILY’s List. Under her leadership, Prado built a strategy and team that won historic gains cycle to cycle, putting electing diverse slates of pro-choice women at all levels, up and down the ballot. Previously, she was a Director at the AFL-CIO, where she oversaw legislative, electoral, and issue campaign work alongside leadership and staff development programs. Prado’s work at the AFL-CIO included campaigns on trade, the federal budget, paid sick leave, pension, voting rights, and other labor issues to level the playing field for working people. She also served as the Political Director for the Service Employees International Union in Colorado. An experienced strategic campaign and political operative, Prado worked at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) as a Deputy Political Director during the historic 2006 and 2008 cycles. She worked on the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and the presidential independent expenditure campaign, America Coming Together. She has also managed multiple U.S. Senate campaigns and local races in states around the country. Prado also worked in the West Bank and Gaza as a senior advisor and GOTV Director for the New Democratic Initiative (NDI) in the 2006 parliamentary elections. She also helped start up two organizations: one dedicated to reducing income inequality and a second focused on labeling genetically modified foods. A Colorado native, Geri is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Political Science and is six credits shy of a Master’s in Public Policy and Organizational Development. She is the human to two dogs, Cooper and Sammie.