carla is a founding member of cultivate strategies. carla has extensive experience working with progressive organizations, unions and candidates from local school board elections to campaigns for president. their expertise is in digital, field, creative actions, branding, and strategic communications.

previously the senior vice president of strategy at revolution messaging, carla has led large teams, hundreds of clients, and managed full service cross- department work. carla has led work with clients like 350, abortion af, aclu, bernie sanders for president 2016, color of change, democracy for america, democratic senatorial campaign committee, elizabeth warren for senate 2018, giffords, justice for flint, movement for black lives, moveon, presente, showing up for racial justice, standing rock sioux tribe, and working families party.

carla was the lead mobile strategist for bernie sanders for president 2016 which won two reed awards and a pollie award for mobile. carla helped conceptualize and launch daily action, which uses mobile and calling to make civic engagement easy and effective by having one call action per day. daily action has been recognized with 2 reed awards, a gold pollie award, and a mobile marketing association award for social impact. carla worked with black out for human rights to use mobile tools to raise $150,000 in 24 hours for communities affected by the flint water crisis.

carla is from miami, fl and graduated from colby college in waterville, me with degrees in environmental policy and film. In maine, they found their other passion; competitive timber sports, partaking in events like axe throwing, fire building, and chopping. carla is on the board of directors of werk for peace, an organization that holds trans and queer dance protests, notably in front of mike pence and ivanka trump’s houses. carla currently lives in the petworth neighborhood of washington, dc with their cat, leo.

Kayla is a multidisciplinary designer, art director, and activist. With over a decade of experience in branding and creative strategy, she specializes in creating flexible visual systems, human-centered solutions, and unique experiences for brands and campaigns building progressive change. She believes in a collaborative and personal creative process, and remains continuously curious, in love with color, and hungry for new perspectives. She has created brand work for a diverse set of clients spanning tech, nonprofit, and consumer brands, including She the People, Google, the city of San Francisco, Alaska Airlines, Harvard, and Sutter Health. Kayla is an Academy of Art University alumni and graduate show award winner, former YBCA Imagination Fellow, and lifelong Californian currently living and creating in Oakland.