Ellen oversees the team on all product strategy. She has worked at Uplift Campaigns since 2019 and moved over to head Rise in 2023. She has an MA in Political Science, focusing on quantitative methods and data science, from Columbia University, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Claremont McKenna College, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Ellen lives in the East Bay with her husband and their dog, Tumalo.

Andy Barr is a Director at Rise. Andy helps drive Rise business strategy and product roadmap. In addition to being a director at Rise, Andy is the Managing Director of Uplift Campaigns. Prior to founding Uplift, Andy was a political consultant for SKDKnickerbocker in Washington, D.C., communications director for a US Senate campaign and a political reporter at Politico. After a decade in Washington, Andy, his wife and daughters now call Berkeley, CA home.

Steven Gordon is Head of Engineering at Rise. Steven leads the engineering team to develop effective and insightful software products for Democratic clients and campaigns. Prior to joining Rise, Steven spent eight years writing software at Slack as a backend engineer. In addition, he has worked on a variety of political campaigns, including Harris for President in 2024 (voter protection in Michigan) and Obama '08 (organizing). Steven and his wife live in San Francisco after migrating from the East Coast.

Bill Keuth is the lead backend and dev ops engineer for Rise Digital Properties. Prior to this role, he worked on integration pipelines for an email marketing organization and before that managed a customer service team for a parking company. Bill hails from the suburbs of Indianapolis and is a proud alumni of Indiana University, where he graduated with a degree in Public Sector and Nonprofit Management. Outside of work, he is an active runner and community leader for a free fitness group. Bill, his partner, and cat all happily reside in San Francisco, CA.

Emily Liu is a Creative at Rise. She works on UI design and website development. She graduated with honors from UC Santa Barbara, where she double majored in Communication and Art. Prior to joining Rise, she was an Art Director for her local newspaper, where she illustrated and managed the art department. She specializes in graphic design and filmmaking. During her free time she enjoys learning 3D softwares and coding for generative art.

Savi Krishnan is a Frontend Engineer on Rise’s Engineering Team. She collaborates with the team to build and maintain the Ascend platform and deliver data and analytics to clients. Prior to joining Uplift in 2025, she worked as a Data and Software Engineer at a progressive super PAC, Priorities USA, for two political cycles, building out data pipelines and software for a political digital competitive tracking app. She was also a Data Associate at the political communications firm, GMMB. Savi is a graduate of Georgetown University and calls Washington, D.C. and New Jersey home.

Alex Mindock is a Software Engineer at Rise, focusing mainly on frontend development. Prior to joining Rise, Alex worked in the banking industry, creating automated workflows for document OCR and translation, as well as maintaining customer-facing pages within the Claims, Disputes, and Fraud department. He also spent time working in IT for the Ohio House of Representatives where he tested the floor voting system, tracked inventory, and repaired/replaced tech equipment.

Ben Keane is a Data Fellow for Rise, specializing in predictive modeling as well as GIS. Prior to working at Rise, he helped a variety of political campaigns with mapping and data needs. He received his B.S. in Data Science and M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2025. At Stanford, he worked at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis and the Deliberative Democracy Lab.

Pedro is a Data Fellow here at Rise. He works on developing descriptive and predictive models that enrich Rise’s data. Pedro obtained his bachelor’s in Data Science and a minor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. There, he engaged with various progressive projects to help his local community, including a non-profit in the greater Bay Area. After graduating, he joined the Harris for President campaign as a Data Engineer in the Paid Media Analytics team. Pedro is actively obtaining his masters in Computational Analytics at Georgia Tech.