Maggie Muir has worked in politics for more than 18 years. From New Hampshire to Colorado to Washington D.C. and back to her native California, she has experience in every aspect of campaigns and public affairs strategies.

Since 1995, she honed her political skills working on candidate and ballot measure campaigns in San Francisco and the East Bay. Maggie helped manage successful bond measures for the San Francisco Zoo and the Moscone Convention Center, and headed the successful ballot measure affirming the landmark cross atop Mt. Davidson. She also managed Mark Leno’s election to the 13th Assembly district.

Since 2002, Maggie has focused on writing and producing direct mail for candidates locally and nationwide, including incumbents and challengers. She produces direct mail and vote-by-mail pieces on behalf of candidates for president, congress, assembly, supervisor and city council, and to inform and build support for public affairs projects.

In addition to campaigns, Maggie creates and manages public affairs programs. She developed an extremely effective political advocacy program for the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, helping the trade association become one of the strongest and most effective voices at City Hall on behalf of its members, and worked with the Medic One Foundation to approve a successful merger between the San Francisco Paramedics and Firefighters.

Since joining forces in 2008, Maggie and Maureen Erwin have passed parcel taxes for schools in Alameda, run successful election and re-election campaigns for three members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and helped elect School Board members Rachel Norton in San Francisco and Jody London in Oakland. They have helped the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center build support for their first successful steps to build a new center and are worked with the Alameda Unified School District on communications and media.

Maggie begin her professional career in New Hampshire working on the presidential campaign of then Senator Bob Kerrey, after which she went to work for the successful U.S. Senate campaign of Ben Nighthorse Campbell in Colorado. She then settled in the Washington D.C office of Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois for three years, taking a leave to manage his re-election campaign in 1994. Missing California, she returned to San Francisco to work with John Whitehurst of Whitehurst Campaigns and then Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst, Lauter & Partners, where she worked for seven years, learning the ins and outs of San Francisco politics. Maggie lives in Oakland with her husband Brook Turner and two sons Witt and Rhett.

Maureen (also known as “Mo”) began her work in politics as a volunteer, walking precincts for Democrats running for congress and president. In 1995 she moved from Orange County to the Bay Area to study Cultural Anthropology at San Francisco State University.

While she was a student, Maureen produced the Pacifica Network’s nationally syndicated radio show We the People with Jerry Brown out of KPFA-Berkeley. She then worked as Jerry Brown’s field director for his 1998 mayoral campaign. In 2002 she managed Mayor Brown’s re-election campaign.

In 2001 she joined Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst, Lauter and Partners in San Francisco, where she served as a field consultant to all candidates and ballot qualification drives, managing GOTV and vote-by-mail campaigns. Her clients included the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Club, Noreen Evans for Assembly, Mark Leno for Assembly, and SEIU.

In 2004, for Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company (NYSE: TSO), Maureen designed communication plans and served as liaison to local and national media. She managed Tesoro’s local Community Advisory Panel and the Tesoro/United Steel Workers Local 5 United Way campaigns. She also managed local government relations and served as Public Information Officer under the Incident Command structure. She chaired the Community Outreach team for the emergency preparedness organization Contra Costa CAER (Community Awareness and Emergency Response).

In 2006-2007 she worked as a consultant for the California Faculty Association’s statewide bargaining campaign (SEIU Local 1983), designing and managing their faculty outreach field program.

Maureen has trained more than 1,000 people in field organizing principles and techniques through her campaign work and field training workshops. She develops campaign databases for clients using her experience in the field. She co-administered one of the first campaign websites to incorporate automated online fundraising (jerrybrown.org- 1997). She has an Intermediate certificate in MS Access and has completed coursework in Visual Basic through UC Berkeley Extension.

Maureen studied fine arts for two years and is a chalk artist. She lives in the East Bay with her husband and daughter.