About Us
Welcome To Our Universe
We’re powering progressive action across the organizing spectrum – whether you’re doing voter contact for a local campaign or ballot initiative, organizing at a union or nonprofit, or running a PAC.
About Universe
Universe is an all-in-one campaign management platform built in local campaign offices, for local progressive and Democratic organizers.
While volunteering on the ground with local campaigns back in 2018, we came to realize how much campaign tech has evolved to be fragmented, expensive, and built for large campaigns – leaving the grassroots candidates fighting for local causes without good support.
That’s why we started building Universe – exclusively for down ballot campaigns, local organizations, and first-time candidates – to give them access to all of the modern tooling they need to run their campaign, even without a large budget or in-house tech team.
Why Local Campaigns and Organizations?
We know that real change happens at the grassroots level. Down-ballot races have larger legislative consequences in our daily lives than national elections do. Moreover, they create grassroots groundswells that directly affect the top of the ticket. And, 70% of these local races go uncontested every year.
Down-ballot progressives are in crisis – and if we don’t start winning races locally, we can say goodbye to winning federal offices. That’s what we’re working on fixing. We hope you’ll join us in working to get more progressives into local races, equipped with the support and resources they need to win. 🇺🇲
Our Values
Joy
Equity & Access
Ownership
Community
Innovation & Excellence
Our Team
Adam Miller
San Francisco, CA
Erica Oh
San Francisco, CA
Ruth Wu
San Francisco, CA
Logan Evasco
San Francisco, CA
Jenny Silber
Austin, TX
Joel Emerson
New Orleans, LA
Kyna Wiltz
Chicago, IL
Art Phung
Philadelphia, PA
Emon Datta
San Francisco, CA
Steven McCarty
Washington, D.C.
