AHG hosts an exclusive digital learning community for progressive campaigners—presently free to join! Get ideas and insights from Adriel and campaigners across the united states working to elect candidates up and down the ballot and win social change. Click to request membership.
AHG hosts an exclusive digital learning community for progressive campaigners—presently free to join! Get ideas and insights from Adriel and campaigners across the united states working to elect candidates up and down the ballot and win social change. Click to request membership.
The Really Online Lefty League is fighting fire with fire to ensure that that progressive grassroots speaks loudly in our democracy. From independent attacks on the worst of corporate politicians to taking on Donald Trump and tech titan Mark Zuckerberg in paid and earned media, TROLL is dedicated to impact. Click to visit the PAC site.
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The Really Online Lefty League is fighting fire with fire to ensure that that progressive grassroots speaks loudly in our democracy. From independent attacks on the worst of corporate politicians to taking on Donald Trump and tech titan Mark Zuckerberg in paid and earned media, TROLL is dedicated to impact. Click to visit the PAC site.
teams &partnerships
AHG matches progressive projects and campaigns with the right creative teams, technologies, and service providers. We also provide business development and project management for organizations that seek to reach millions of people. Learn about free tools for NPOs and digital journalists.
teams &partnerships
AHG matches progressive projects and campaigns with the right creative teams, technologies, and service providers. We also provide business development and project management for organizations that seek to reach millions of people. Learn about free tools for NPOs and digital journalists.
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the team
Astrid Cota
art & graphic design
Astrid Cota (she/they) is a twenty-year-old graphic designer, political science undergrad, and organizer with People’s City Council Los Angeles. Since learning about the phenomenon of people power, they have been motivated to fight the intersecting forms of oppression that have impacted their community for decades.
Nicole Donanian-Blandón
senior project management & digital production
Nicole (she/her) is a passionate Digital Producer and Project Manager with over 10 years of experience working for Fortune 500 clients. She now leverages this experience in the social justice space for clients at the Adriel Hampton Group, in addition to being an active organizer in Los Angeles.
Sarah Goldzweig
planning & design, content production
Sarah (she/her) is an LA native and organizer. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with a degree in Political Economy. She is currently in London pursuing a research degree at University College London’s Bartlett School of Planning, where she is studying — through an interdisciplinary lens combining critical human geography, urban studies and urban planning — how public space is made punitive and carceral.
Ricci Sergienko
strategy & creative
Ricci (he/him) is a former college baseball player and law school graduate; he chose the movement over corporate law. At AHG, he focuses on strategy, creative vision and client relations. He is also an active organizer in Los Angeles, working to dismantle oppressive systems.
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the chief
Seer, madman, builder, protector,the name behind the firm, meet Adriel Hampton.
Decades in political journalism, city government, and political technologyto create the world’s most effective software, data, and strategic solutions.
At 18, Adriel spent two years running his community college newspaper before transferring to UC Berkeley, where he studied Rhetoric while working as an editor for a local newspaper chain.
Adriel was the first blogger at the San Francisco Examiner, where he served as Political Editor. He was the first person to use Twitter to run for Congress, obtained a private investigator license while working for the San Francisco City Attorney, and worked as a founding team member of NationBuilder and Pinpoint Predictive.
Adriel has the skills of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the heart of a Berkeley activist. He’s been a popular speaker and podcaster on “Gov 2.0,” a pizza delivery man, a roofer, and still considers himself first a writer.
Adriel has helped hundreds of campaigns with their technology needs, co-founded one of the left’s most popular Facebook pages, and has written more than a hundred thousand tweets.
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