JASON ORTIZ
CO-FOUNDER, CEO

Jason is a seasoned political operative with 20 years of experience in lobbying, public relations and political action. His record of significant issue campaign and electoral victories in New York City and State includes key roles on policy victories for the Innocence Project, the Vera Institute, the Drug Policy Alliance and the New York Hotel Trades Council.

He was the Director of Political and Strategic Affairs for the New York Hotel Trades Council, widely viewed as the most influential institutional player in New York politics. He engineered significant legislative and electoral victories and continues to provide the union with political and communications counsel. Since 2018, he has worked mostly on issue-oriented legislative campaigns for labor, criminal justice reform, and education reform advocates, but most recently worked on the Super PAC that helped Eric Adams win the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City.