Our Team
Catherine Vaughan
Catherine has built a career launching, leading, and advising mission-driven organizations. In 2016, Catherine founded Flippable, an organization focused on electing Democrats to state legislative races. After Flippable merged with Swing Left in 2019, Catherine served as the organization’s Co-Executive Director, overseeing programs that raised $25M and mobilized over 35M voter contacts in the 2020 election. Catherine has also advised dozens of nonprofits and philanthropies, both as an independent advisor and as a consultant with The Bridgespan Group and McKinsey & Company. She lives in Park Slope and serves on Brooklyn Community Board 6.
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
A lifelong New Yorker, Ryder was a candidate for State Assembly for District 66 in 2022 and 2026. He has worked to elect Democrats up and down the ballot with a focus on voting rights, running a state voter protection program for the Biden campaign in 2020 and a regional program for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2022. Ryder previously founded DipJar, a startup that has enabled tens of millions of dollars of nonprofit donations. He lives in the West Village, where he serves as a member of Manhattan’s Community Board 2.
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director
Ryder Kessler
Emmanuel Hidalgo-Wohlleben
Emmanuel is an MPA student at Cornell's Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy. At Abundance New York, he writes and develops public-facing content on housing, transit, clean energy, and government capacity. Before Cornell, Emmanuel spent nearly five years at Tertulia, a literary technology startup, and previously interned with NYU Press and TED Conferences.
Digital & Communications Consultant
Samir is a technology professional turned political data analyst. He started his career working at marketing and AI startups in Silicon Valley. He has spent the last 6 years using data to elect Democrats. He was a data analyst on the Biden for President campaign in 2020, a Deputy Data Director for Phil Murphy's re-election in New Jersey in 2021, and Senior Research Manager at Blue Rose Research. He lives in Murray Hill and serves on Manhattan Community Board 6.
Research & Analytics Consultant