The Middle Coast Team
Headquartered in Washington DC, Middle Coast LLC has additional offices in New York and California with affiliates in states across the country.
Middle Coast LLC is a team of skilled professionals and passionate advocates. We have decades of experience in the progressive advocacy and campaign world, including nationally targeted congressional, senatorial, presidential campaigns and some of the most influential advocacy campaigns over the last decade.
Erin is a new media strategist with nearly a decade of experience working with national and state-wide campaigns, organizations and party infrastructure. She most recently served as the Strategic Manager of all progressive clients for New Media Strategies.
Erin specializes in strategic planning, website re-design and new media outreach. She previously served as Director of New Media for Media Matters for America and their C4 arm, Media Matters Action Network, Director of Online Strategy and Communications at Grassroots Democrats – a 527 dedicated to working with Democratic State Parties. She was an Internet Strategist for the Kerry-Edwards 2004 presidential campaign.
Over this time, Hofteig has helped more than 30 State Democratic Parties, a variety of non-profit organizations, unions and individual candidates develop their new media strategy, re-design their online presence and build campaign micro-sites for list building. She also specializes in online marketing, email strategy, social networking, mobile strategies and database management. A graduate of the California State University, Chico with a double major in Political Science and International Relations, Erin is a founding partner of Middle Coast.
Lindsay is a fundraising consultant, specializing in campaign fundraising and operation set-ups. She has a campaign background with over ten years of experience in the field and in consulting, including 3.5 years in polling; campaign management; state, Congressional and Senatorial fundraising; and building organizations from scratch.
Last cycle, Lindsay served as the finance director for Scott Kleeb's senate bid (NE) and Bob Lord's congressional race (AZ-3). Prior to that, she spent 2.5 years with Momentum Analysis as the Field Director and an Analyst. In 2003, she created listserv for grad program students/alums, that has grown to 1150 and is a co-founder of the GSPM Alumni Association, where she also serves as President. In 2005-2006, Lindsay served on the Executive Committee for the Women’s Information Network, for Communications and Development (winonline.org).
Lindsay holds a Masters degree in Political Management (GSPM), with focuses on Issue Advocacy and Polling/Strategic Research, and Bachelors degree in International Affairs, both from the George Washington University.
Marisa is a communications specialist with a diverse professional background and more than ten years experience in political strategy, policy analysis, online communications, blog outreach, social networks and issue advocacy.
Marisa specializes in recognizing emerging trends in political organizing. In 2007 and 2008 she served as consultant and national communications strategist for the Campaign for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. In that role, Marisa was responsible for working with immigration groups nationwide on messaging, press events and online organizing. Marisa also serves as an advisor to political campaigns and advocacy organizations to devise strategies for using new media to communicate effectively in the digital age.
Marisa serves on the Washington, DC board of the New Leaders Council. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.