Andy Walton
Account Executive, Washington, DC
It was during what felt like the thousandth consecutive hour of election coverage, in November 2000, that I realized that I could have done something to change all of this. Right there in my living room, yelling at the television and calling this woman in Florida names for making such an fundamental mistake in graphic design (the butterfly ballot) that it probably cost us an election. There I was with thirteen years of image production and management behind me, all on meaningless projects with almost no social value, and I could have done differently. It was then that I realized that the woman who made the mistake in the first place had done more to make a difference for the better on her worst day than I’d done in my whole life. I decided to change that when I got the chance.
That chance came at the beginning of 2004 when I was hired to run field campaigns for the DNC. That year I ran a fundraising office in Connecticut, a voter outreach campaign in Ohio and environmental campaigns in Minnesota and California. At Telefund I’m able to use my (now seventeen) years of production and management experience to run campaigns committed to social change. I’m still making up for lost time.
