Ben Goldfarb is a seasoned campaign worker and community organizer, and former campaign manager for Minnesota US Senator Amy Klobuchar (2006), the first woman elected to the Senate in the state's history. In that capacity, he helped turn one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the country into a 20-point landslide. After the campaign, Ben served as strategic research and communications consultant for the main opposition party in the 2007 Irish parliamentary elections. The party made record seat gains and nearly toppled an overwhelmingly popular incumbent government and Prime Minister.
Ben has also worked as Get Out the Vote Director for the 2004 Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign, in which he directed a massive grassroots operation that played a central role in Minnesota's leading the nation in voter turnout. In that capacity, Ben managed an organization that moved more than 15,000 volunteers to talk to nearly 1 million voters in the final days of the campaign. From 2003-2005 he served as executive director of the community-based organization Progressive Minnesota (now Take Action Minnesota), which led successful grassroots efforts to raise the state's minimum wage, engage tens of thousands of new immigrants in the political process, and win dozens of ballot initiatives and local campaigns. Ben managed a Saint Paul mayoral campaign in 2001 and in 2002 helped run the electoral program for a public employee union. Ben earned his B.A. from Macalester College in 1999, majoring in urban studies with minor concentrations in history and African-American Studies.
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