Brian Franklin
Brian Franklin is President of Impact Politics and has provided marketing strategy, creative direction, language development, and writing services to over a hundred political campaigns, organizations, agencies, and corporations. He has led Impact Politics’ work for numerous federal, state, county candidate, ballot initiative, public advocacy, and non-profit campaigns, as well as ad development and online media strategy for international advocacy campaigns.
Brian’s work has earned prestigious national political advertising awards, such as Pollie Awards for Best Overall Internet Campaign, Best Overall Campaign Use of Negative Contrast, Best Use of Facebook Advertising, Best Use of Search Engine Advertising, Best Use of Humor in an Online Ad, Best Online Ads, and more. Brian has also won a Campaigns and Elections Reed Award for Best Online Targeting.
Brian is a Board Member of the American Association of Political Consultants and co-Chair of their Technology Committee. He is the author of numerous articles in Campaigns and Elections magazine as well as on political blogs.
In addition to his leadership role in the American Association of Political Consultants, Brian is also a member of the International Association of Political Consultants, Society for Consumer Psychology, Behavior Science and Policy Association and the International Society of Political Psychology. Additionally, Brian serves on the University of Florida’s Political Communications Advisory Council.
Nicole Franklin
Nicole Franklin is a 17 year veteran of political media buying, and has placed over $100 million in broadcast, cable, satellite, radio, print, and outdoor advertising for Democratic campaigns, ballot initiatives, and issue advocacy organizations. Her past work includes media buying nationally and internationally for the Pew Charitable Trusts issue advocacy, as well as for major congressional and statewide campaigns.
At Impact Politics, Nicole oversees all media buying and project management timelines for both its digital and non-digital work.
Nicole is also a partner and President of Campaign Defense, a cyber-security behavioral training company for campaigns and advocacy organizations.
Rene Alvarez
Rene serves as Impact Politics’ Vice President, and oversees all digital production for our client’s campaigns.
He joined Impact in 2016 with a wealth of digital experience as well as traditional corporate advertising and branding, which includes broadcast and print work for Macy’s, Verizon, and the World Wrestling Federation. For the past 15 years, he’s overseen and helped guide the interactive and digital efforts of numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as nonprofits and governmental agencies.
Since joining us Rene has helped support the campaigns of dozens of candidates and advocacy groups through the creation of digital assets and email campaign management. He is a member of the American Association of Political Consultants and is an active member of the education community in South Florida. He currently teaches “Foundations of Political Advertising” at the University of Florida’s School of Journalism Masters Program and gives marketing workshops to small businesses in Miami.
Liz Tracy
Liz Tracy is our senior writer/researcher at Impact Politics and resides in Washington, D.C.
Liz is a journalist, copywriter, ghostwriter, and editor. She has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Glamour, and Vox.
Liz worked as music editor for New Times Broward Palm Beach, print editor for female drummer magazine Tom Tom, and weekend news editor for Inverse. As a full-time grant writer, she raised money for Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami City Ballet, and Miami Children’s Museum.
For an Intel-sponsored pop-up site on Gizmodo, she covered technology and parenting. More recently, she’s written news for W magazine. As a ghostwriter, she penned a chef’s self-help book and the history of a prominent Bostonian family.
She has a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Florida International University and a master’s degree in religion from Florida State University. Liz has worked as an instructor at Florida International University, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and Boston’s Grub Street.
Diane Ward
Diane is an accomplished, award winning Art Director with 25 years of professional graphic design experience. Her creative works in both print and digital media platforms have served a multitude of clients and reflect a wide spectrum of stylistic expression and branding. Her design work for Impact Politics has won Pollies for Best Website design, Best Logo and Best Online Advertising.
Diane also is also a seasoned voice-over talent, songwriter and producer.
Debbie Duke
Debbie Duke has been Impact Politics’s lead web developer since 2011. Meticulous and committed to seamless UI/UX, she is an expert WordPress, Nationbuilder and NGP developer, able to design experiences that are functional and data centric. Her handiwork can be seen on all of our website development, from landing pages to WordPress and Nationbuilder themes built for the candidates and causes we work with.
Debbie has been programming since 2000, and has extensive experience in both front and back end development. She is fluent in several web scripting languages, including PHP, MySQL/SQL, Javascript/jQuery and Liquid. Working with WordPress since 2005, she is well versed in security best practices, responsive design and HTML5/CSS.
A strong believer that the web is a medium for good deeds, she works with several national and local non-profits, including Public Justice, the LGBT Bar, NMAC.org and the Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit.
Mia Almaguer
Mia has been designing beautiful and effective digital and print for over a decade. An expert at creating visual impact, she employs a clean and modern design aesthetic that puts a spotlight on the message and the brand. We are lucky to have her at Impact Politics.
Her experience runs the gamut, from magazine publishing to in-house marketing departments and boutique creative agencies, to higher education. She has worked with the likes of Bacardi, Brooks Sports, Burger King, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Sandals Resorts, Florida International University and many others. Passionate about identity and branding, her work has been published in the popular book series LogoLounge. At Impact Politics Mia has been clutch in designing our most recent websites and has worked on statewide digital campaigns for candidates and advocacy groups.
Mia earned her BA in Graphic Design from the Art Institutes Miami International University of Art & Design.
