Senior Team
David Donnelly
Executive Director
David has spent nearly three decades as a strategist and leader in pro-democracy work. His experience spans running state and national organizations and campaigns, managing innovative local, state, and federal policy efforts, assembling multi-state initiatives, and raising funds to support it all. Prior to founding PDC, David served for seven years as the President of Every Voice and has consulted for a variety of campaigns, organizations, and philanthropies primarily focused on building enduring power to win structural change and issue campaigns.
Jerusha Haasenritter
Chief of Staff
Jerusha brings over a decade of experience in nonprofit administration and education. She is passionate about serving organizations committed to large-scale change. Jerusha helps organizations function efficiently and assists nonprofit leaders to design systems that meet the unique needs of their team. Her expertise spans from directing operations and managing boards to strategic planning and evaluation. Prior to working in nonprofits, she taught English education in South Korea.
Rajan Narang
Senior Director of States
The guiding principle of Rajan’s democracy work is to help develop stronger, more mutually supportive relationships between national groups and the state-based organizations that must lead the way in rebuilding our democracy. Before coming to Pro-Democracy Campaign, Rajan served as Executive Director of the State Democracy Project coalition, and was the first Director of State and Local Campaigns at End Citizens United/Let America Vote. He started his career organizing support for the Affordable Care Act as a volunteer in his Bay Area community – a memory that he cherishes to this day. Rajan can most often be found spending time with family, enjoying the California outdoors, or rummaging through used book sales.
Jess Wisneski
State Strategist
As a former Community Organizer, Legislative and Campaigns Director and Co-Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, Jess was at the helm of building and executing statewide community-labor coalitions and campaigns to win at the state and federal level, including the Fight for 15, Ending Prison-Based Gerrymandering and Health Care for All New York. Jess led the two decade effort to build the Fair Elections for New York campaign that won a small donor public financing of elections systems for statewide races. She is currently a State Committee member and Co-Chair of the New York Working Families Party.