Chris Miller has been a lifelong Democrat and a native of Arizona. Since moving into LD1 over 20 years ago, he was not involved in politics as the area was super red. In 2017, the Presidential election changed his mind to get involved and highly engaged in the local LD. After registering as a PC and taking on the Precinct Captain role for the Majesty Precinct, he was elected to the LD1 Board as First Vice Chair. In 2020, Chris was focused on Election Day work efforts and working through the Field Ops plans during this vastly different election. LD1 had a 90.3% Democratic turnout, the highest ever recorded in the LD. For his day job, Chris also handles a large portfolio for an international technology company focusing on 5G technology and security. He has been traveling internationally for many years and works with people from over 50 countries on a daily basis usually starting his day around 3am. In his spare time, Chris volunteers his time as a Scoring Services Chairman at the Charles Schwab Cup golf tournament(November) and works with the Pac-12 Conference to handle basketball replay during games. Chris and his wife Jill were also highly involved working with asylum seekers housing over 300 asylum seekers at the beginning of 2019. Chris’ goal is to retire early and travel the world extensively with his wife Jill while continuing to make Arizona solidly blue!

Alex is currently an innovator in the technology sector focused on smart cities and automated vehicles working with state government, corporations, startups, and universities. Alex has almost 20 years of leading corporate initiatives including community development, environmental efforts, and diversity and inclusion. Alex has a master’s degree in Political Science and has volunteered for several mayoral, city council, school board, and legislative district candidates helping with campaign strategy. In addition to his social justice efforts and non-profit experience, Alex has extensive public administration experience serving as an appointed official for the Bloomington (IL) Cultural Commission, Bloomington (IL) Public Library Board, and Gilbert (AZ) Citizens Transportation Task Force. As the son of Colombian immigrants, he is a proud supporter of Public Broadcasting and a product of public schools, bilingual education, and city parks and recreation programs. Outside of work and family, Alex is a soccer coach and enthusiast who lives and breathes for the beautiful game.

The newly elected chair of Legislative District 16 is Sharon Stinard.  She is a long-time resident of the East Valley and was a candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives in 2016 and 2018.  She is a retired educator of 42 years with 22 years in the secondary school classroom and 20 years working at the community college level.  Her leadership skills have been developed through serving as an elected officer on various non-profit and service organization boards of directors.  The women’s domestic violence shelter program in the far east valley she founded recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.  She looks forward to building a team of Democratic activists in LD16 that will enjoy working together to elect Democrats and grow our party in Arizona for years to come.

Nancy has been a lifelong Democrat. She has a Master’s in Social Work and spent her first years working with children and families at the Department of Economic Security.  This included 5 years as the Director for the Food Stamp and Welfare Programs in Maricopa County. In the mid-1980s, the USDA decided it was time to move on from food stamp coupons and released several grants to test Electronic Benefits (EBT). At that point, Nancy moved to the private sector to use her experience in bidding, installing and supporting the fledging state programs. She is now retired from JPMorgan Chase and spends her time with good friends, her family and of course, the Democrats.

Devin began work as a Community Organizer in 2012. In that year alone, he helped register over 34,000 new minority voters that were engaged throughout the 2012 election cycle. That success continued in 2013 as Devin served as a community organizer throughout South Phoenix & West Phoenix working to increase civic engagement in communities of color. In 2014, Devin ran for a seat on Tolleson Union High School District Governing Board. In which Devin won his election and was voted Vice President by his fellow board members.  In addition to serving as a school board member; Devin was also elected in 2015 to serve as the Regional Pacific Director for the National Black Council of school board members. As a Pacific Regional Director, overseeing 5 states; Devin works to increase academic achievement from ethnic and racial minority groups. 

Eric Shelley has been active with the Maricopa Democrats since 2008. After getting his feet wet working as a volunteer and activist for several campaigns in 2008, Eric ran as a candidate for Arizona State Senate in 2010 and again in 2012. That experience helped Eric understand what works – and what doesn’t work – when trying to elect Democrats in Arizona. Between his two runs for the legislature he held the office of Chair of LD 7 in 2011 (North Phoenix/Scottsdale/Cave Creek).

Since 2012 Eric has begun helping various candidate & committees better understand their voter universe through data analysis and mapping strategies. Eric favors a numbers-driven approach to improving Democratic election success. Eric believes in helping PCs and other activists “build their army” of voters in their neighborhood to turn streets, precincts, LDs and communities blue everywhere possible.

Gene is a retired law enforcement officer from The City of Compton. He obtained his Juris Doctor from California Southern Law School has been a Precinct Committee Person since 2016

Victoria has been an LD23 PC since 2017. She was the facilitator of the LD’s strategic plan in 2019 and joined the LD23 board later that year as the VC of Organization Development. In that role, she recruited PCs, trained them and engaged them throughout the election cycle. She developed & conducted training programs & authored weekly tips – small bites of training – which ran for over a year. She stopped at tip #55 when she was elected to be the LD Chair.

Victoria’s prior experience includes over 20 years as a Human Resources executive, working for the US Army as a civilian, teaching at an Illinois Community College, social work with delinquent & pre-delinquent adolescents and, more recently, graduating from the Botanical Garden’s Desert Landscape School.

She lives in Scottsdale with her crime-fiction-writer husband, James L. Thane and their cat Zane Grey.

Deborah’s role as president of an executive assistant company allows her to be fully submersed in Phoenix metro events and nonprofits. She is also an instructor for the FEMA Community Emergency Response Team training program and a certified trainer for the Department of Homeland Security Stop the Bleed program.

Deborah became involved with Legislative District 24 in early 2017 and quickly organized her precinct and the East region. Deborah accepted the Field Director position on the board in February 2018. Since then, Deborah has implemented a training series to ensure consistent and continuous training for new and seasoned PCs. Deborah enjoys her work on the board, striving to engage and remove barriers for all communities in LD24.

Iain Hamp has served in roles within the Democratic Party since 2017, first as a Precinct Committeeperson and then as First Vice-Chair of his Legislative District, before being elected as Chair of LD25 in November of 2020. He is a tenacious advocate and supporter of local Democratic candidates, and believes we are at our best (and give ourselves the best chance to win) when we drop our egos and serve whenever and wherever the work of electing Democrats needs us.

Professionally, Iain is a data analyst and business systems consultant. Prior to being involved in political volunteer work, Iain was heavily involved in non-profit leadership. He has served on the board of directors for Junior Achievement of Arizona, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona, and Arizona Forward, and in 2015 he was the founder and founding chair of the Phoenix Community ToolBank. Outside of the Democratic Party, his political volunteerism has also included board service with Save Our Schools Arizona and providing ongoing support to Civic Engagement Beyond Voting.

Iain resides in Mesa, Arizona with his wife, his dog, and his chickens. He loves the people of Arizona, he wants to help them have happier, healthier lives, and he believes the Democratic Party can help make that happen.

Patrick Brown is the Chair of Legislative District 27. As a lifelong progressive, the events of 2016 encouraged Patrick to leave the academic side of politics and get more involved in the process. This began by getting involved in Legislative District 27 as a Precinct Committeeperson, Social Media Chair, Board Secretary, and now as Chair.

When Patrick isn’t working to get Democrats elected to office, he spends his time volunteering, spending time with family, and playing video games.

Lucy started volunteering with DIstrict 28 Democrats the year before the fateful 2016 election, working to bring Representative Kelli Butler into the Legislature. She is a PC in the Lookout Ridge Precinct and was a Team Leader, has been the Vice Chair of Communications, started the LD28 Internship program, and was First Vice Chair. She is an active canvassor, knocking on almost 2000 doors in the 2018 cycle which brought Representative Aaron Lieberman into the Legislature. Lucy transitioned to phone banking and lit dropping for the 2020 cycle in support of the re-election of Representatives Lieberman and Butler, and the successful election of Senator Christine Marsh.

Monica is a proud seventh-generation Arizona Native who grew up in Glendale, Arizona. She got her first taste of activism by participating in voter outreach by becoming a voter registrar while at GCC, became involved in MEChA and later served as Vice President.

In 2012, Monica and her husband, Marshall, were both active in his union, AFSCME 2384. It was there that they became involved with several campaigns, including NO on 487, Steve Gallardo, Martin Quezada, and Richard Andrade. This activity brought them to LD29 where they immediately signed up to become appointed PCs. In 2014, Monica was elected as chair and has been re-elected in the following years.

Being a public servant is a role that Monica takes very seriously. She is an active labor member of AZPOA, AFSCME Local 2960, Pride-at-Work Arizona and a is MALF delegate. She serves as a governing board member for the Glendale Elementary School District, treasurer for AzLSBA, and graduated from HLI-West in 2019.