Work

I lead the Advocates for Self-Government, the 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit founded in 1985 behind the World's Smallest Political Quiz. The Quiz has been taken by approximately 30 million people. It helps people understand what they actually believe, which is the first step toward governing themselves politically instead of defaulting to a party label. As President, I oversee strategy, fundraising, and operations, and I led a modernization of the organization's technology, including migrating four decades of organizational data and more than 13,000 donor records onto modern nonprofit systems.

I direct programs including Quiz in the Classroom, which brings nonpartisan political education into schools; Operation Politically Homeless, a grassroots outreach format used at thousands of events nationwide; and the Liberty Bounty program, which rewards grassroots community engagement.

I designed and built Political DNA as an independent project. It is a political assessment that moves past the single left-to-right line to map individuals across 32 distinct political archetypes. I developed the assessment framework, built the platform's database architecture, and designed its sharing mechanics.

The project grew out of a recognition that existing political quizzes, including the one my own organization is known for, are a starting point and no more. People's political identities are more complex than any single axis can capture. Political DNA gives people a clearer picture of themselves so they can make more intentional decisions, which is the kind of self-knowledge that makes self-government possible.

At the Self-Management Institute, I studied and helped advance the principles of non-hierarchical organization at Morning Star Company, the world's largest tomato processor, where thousands of colleagues operate without traditional managers through a system of written peer-to-peer agreements. I worked on translating Morning Star's operational model into frameworks and educational materials that other organizations could learn from and adopt.

Seeing self-government work as a day-to-day operational reality, and as more than a political philosophy, shaped my approach to everything that came after.

As a student at California State University, Sacramento, I founded the campus chapter of Students For Liberty in 2010 and served on SFL's Executive Board that year, during the period when the organization grew into one of the largest international networks of pro-liberty students. I helped build programming, content, and organizational infrastructure that let young people organize around individual freedom and self-government.