Annie Lydgate

Annie is a detail-oriented leader with high-level client, campaign, and operations management experience. She specializes in campaign management, grassroots advocacy and engagement, storytelling, and content creation.

As a managing director at strategic communications firm Kivvit, Annie works with a wide variety of clients in sectors and industries that include organized labor, consumer goods, manufacturing, clean energy, and higher education.

Prior to joining Kivvit, Annie worked for AKPD Message and Media, the political consulting firm founded by David Axelrod. During the 2008 presidential election, Annie served as Midwest field organizer for the New Voters Project, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter registration effort. In this capacity, she ran voter registration campaigns on college campuses across Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois.

Annie got her start in politics as a field organizer for the National Federation of Student Public Interest Research Groups. Annie is from Boston, where she lives today.