TEAM
Before founding Up to Us, Conor led Product Marketing at Tesla, helped lead Growth at Citizen,and interned for Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Cullen is an engineer, designer, and entrepreneur turned vaccination site volunteer. Once upon a time he worked in the music industry helping launch albums like Born This Way and BEYONCÉ.
Katherine Chan has worked in comms and marketing at Tesla, Facebook and Red Bull. She helps Up To Us craft its message and content, and is excited to learn more about the non-profit space.
Madison is an NYU Wagner student working towards her MPA in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy with a specialization in social impact, innovation, and investment. She is passionate about sustainable solutions to problems affecting our society.
Josh is a graphic designer at WHOOP by day, and brand designer at Up to Us by night. He helps create and curate the visual identity to ensure everything looks its best.
Board of Directors, Head of Talent
Ava is the US Influencer Lead for Google Hardware. She's passionate about the intersection of culture and politics — previously running content strategy for her mother, Susan Bysiewicz's successful campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
Board of Directors, Senior Advisor
Sam Sheffer is a technologist that resides in New York City. He spent his 20s working in tech media; at Engadget, The Verge, and Mashable. He now makes YouTube in his TriBeCa studio and enjoys playing video games, riding his electric longboards, and only the finest Japanese whiskey.
Board of Directors, Senior Advisor
Emily is the COO of Outvote, where she helps hundreds of campaigns, nonprofits, unions, and national advocacy organizations mobilize supporters for sweeping change in 2020. She runs on tea and musical theatre.
Board of Directors, Senior Advisor
Brian is the Head of Marketing at Six Degrees Creative, an Atlanta-based creative house that puts their outside-the-box stamp on global brand campaigns. See if you can find him in one of the 27 music videos he’s appeared in.
Head of Partnerships and
Business Development
Alex is head of Marketing + Partnerships for Daisie, former VICE + Tesla
Angelo is a product manager during the day. His main goal in life is to build great civic and product experiences. It is said that he has a distinct laugh.
Alex is an independent designer building visual identity for Up to Us. He is registered to vote.
Shreya is on the product management team at Disney+, working on consumer engagement and content discovery.
Lindsey is a fiction author and editorial director based in LA. She helped develop some of the branding for up to us.
Rosendo is a photographer and creative director living in Los Angeles.
Shianne works in sports media account management at Optimum Sports working with Gatorade, McDonalds, BioFreeeze, & Intel. She dreams of owning a D&I Sports & Entertainment media consulting firm.
Hanna works on Up to Us' content creation and brand strategy. Always manages to include a car or two.
Jimmy Hsu is a multidisciplinary software engineer and serial entrepreneur that is currently the Co-Founder of Astro Financial. Previously, he was a Fellow & EIR at On Deck, Senior Lead Software Engineer at WeWork & Pandora Music, and Founder at Recharge. He also insists that 1 Doge will always be 1 Doge.
Long Tran is a software engineer currently studying Computer Science at University of California San Diego
Ben sometimes goes by his initials BJAR. He enjoys going up and down mountains and is a trained ballet dancer. Ben's currently taking the semester off from Middlebury College.
Aaron is an engineer building software to transform subscription e-commerce at Scoutside.
Nikolas is an entreprenuer and engineer currently working on a stealth startup.
Anisha is an engineer and ex-medical student. She's passionate about design, medicine, technology and developing products that bring people together. Anisha enjoys asking questions that make people think.
Eshita is a Data Analyst at Shareworks by Morgan Stanley. She helps build Up to Us' website and bring creators onboard to create content.
Ali is a "jack-of-all-trades" that graduated from MIT with a Master’s of Engineering and Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Katie leads product and business strategy at Couplet Coffee and studies Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon.