Who We AreBrian Reich Brian is the chief political advisor and content lead for ElectionMouse. He is a political junkie. In the womb, he unknowingly joined his parents for literature drops and fundraisers. As a small boy, he wore t-shirts and campaign buttons collected on the trail. If there had been Re-elect Jimmy Carter lunch boxes, he probably would have carried one. Throughout high school Brian volunteered for phone banks and yard-sign duty, earning his first paying campaign job at the age of 14. Since then, he has worked dozens of campaigns across the country; student elections at the University of Michigan and local initiatives and city council races in Seattle. At 18, while working in Connecticut, Brian became the youngest person in the United States to serve as Campaign Manager for a Congressional campaign. Most recently, Brian served as Vice President Gore's briefing book director - responsible for coordinating and managing the materials that the Vice President used to prepare each day. He traveled the country with the Vice President - visiting multiple cities and attending dozens of events each day. He was nicknamed by members of the national media as the "Mouse" (for the character in the Matrix and his technological understanding) and enjoyed regular ridicule from the Vice President for his quirky work habits and ability to fall asleep in any position, anywhere. Brian has worked for President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the Presidential Inaugural Committee. He served as Assistant to the Director of Presidential Speechwriting at the White House and in Vice President Gore's speechwriting office as a writer and researcher. Brian currently serves as Fundraising Chair for United Leaders, a national nonpartisan non-profit group at Harvard University, which encourages the millennial generation to pursue honorable careers in political service. He is also a member of the Clinton/Gore Alumni Web Council. Brian attended the University of Michigan from 1997-1999 and currently attends Columbia University. He is a political science major and coxswain for the Columbia Men's Heavyweight Crew. Emily Reich Emily is the chief technical advisor and design lead for ElectionMouse. She has been active in political activism and campaigns for most of her life and has been designing and building web pages for nearly a decade. In addition to serving as Co-Founder of ElectionMouse, Emily is a Project Director at Group Jazz, a company which supports the work of groups, whether they meet face-to-face, and/or online. Prior to joining Group Jazz, Emily designed, built, and maintained award-winning Internet and intranet sites for national and international non-profit organizations at New Media Publishing in Washington DC. Clients she worked with include the American Civil Liberties Union, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Common Cause, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Pew Center on the States, Population Action International, and others. Emily has also worked as a strategist, field operative, and fundraiser on a variety of political campaigns at the local, state and national level. From 1993-4 she worked in the White House Office of Political Affairs focusing on Western and Midwestern state politics. Emily graduated with honors from Amherst College with a double major in Computer Science and Interdisciplinary Studies in "Technology, Society and Culture." Her thesis research focused on feminist activism on the Internet. Emily received an MBA from the Fox School of Business at Temple University. She now lives in the heart of Silicon Valley and is a volunteer at The Tech Museum of Innovation.
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