Gaines builds winning campaigns that translate online conversation into real-world action to pass legislation, shape policy, and carry elections. Gaines is passionate about combining storytelling with data to ground complex policy fights in their human impact. His past work includes securing state investment in renewable energy projects, mobilizing voters to defeat anti-abortion legislation, and helping the country’s largest labor unions win elections and lock in strong contracts for workers.
Prior to Assemble, Gaines helped lead BerlinRosen’s digital organizing practice and worked at the media firm SBDigital.