Andre Banks is founder and CEO of A/B Partners. With over 20 years of political communications and agency experience, Andre brings best-in-class creative strategies and deep expertise in social movements to move critical voices from the margins to the mainstream. Prior to founding A/B in 2018, Andre was Executive Vice President for Social Impact & Philanthropy at BerlinRosen, a leading national public relations and strategic communications firm. At BerlinRosen, Andre led communications strategy, staff-management, and business development for the 20-person practice area. Andre’s portfolio included philanthropy, criminal justice reform, international human rights, LGBTQ rights, voting and civil rights, sustainability, and media and culture. Before joining BerlinRosen, Andre was founding partner at Purpose and the co-founder and former director of All Out, a global campaigning organization with more than 2.2 million members leading the global push towards LGBT equality. He currently serves as the chair of the board at Color Of Change, and as a staff member lead the organization in its early years.

Christina is a veteran strategist with deep experience building and leading campaigns that drive social impact. As an advisor to major nonprofits and global brands, she has designed and led strategic initiatives to address complex challenges from climate change and women's leadership to global health and economic justice. Prior to joining A/B, Christina was Vice President of Social Impact at BerlinRosen, where she helped to create and lead a new strategic communications practice within the national public relations firm.

Ashley Bryant leads A/B’s political engagement practice. After 12+ years of a unique professional career of brand building, digital marketing, and political strategy Ashley sits at the intersection of culture, politics, and activism. After serving as the Ohio Digital Director for the 2012 re-election campaign of President Barack Obama, she left the private sector to focus her efforts on building political power in the communities that need it the most. Prior to A/B, Ashley was a VP at 270 Strategies, Federal Digital Director at MoveOn and has advised several non-profits, and campaigns such as Color of Change, Planned Parenthood, Higher Heights for America, etc on strategic engagement and political mobilization as an independent consultant encouraging action through integrated online and offline strategies.

Alistair Stephenson joins A/B as Deputy Chief of Staff with expertise in brand and digital strategy. He comes with extensive campaign experience across advocacy and corporate environments, working across the US and Australia. Alistair’s most recent workplace was the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where he led integrated digital organizing campaigns in Michigan for a variety of issues, particularly across immigration, LGBTI and racial justice. For years, he led strategy for justice-oriented women’s rights organizations, including the Women’s March Australia and global NGO ActionAid, where he served as board director. Alistair began at corporate branding and advertising agencies M&C Saatchi, Publicis.Sapient and Droga5.

Carolyn Agrimis is an Operations Associate and Executive Assistant at A/B Partners. Before joining the team, she worked in non-profit development in women’s rights and child education spaces with Girl Rising and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. Prior to joining the nonprofit development world, she worked in journalism with a focus on child poverty in the Pacific Northwest. Her love of storytelling is what brought her into the social impact space and she is always on the lookout for human interest stories that will broaden others’ perspectives. Carolyn graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.A. in Journalism with an Arabic studies minor.

Aja serves as the senior strategist for project operations at A/B and believes the core of moving from idea to influence is a smooth, well run work plan. She works with team strategists to streamline team and client communications, project timelines, establishing workflow and project operations. She most recently is coming off of the Warren for President campaign, where she managed communications between states digital teams and the national mobilization team. Before joining the campaign, Aja has always worked with movement based organizations, activating communities around the country, providing guidance and insight on how to engage activists, voters, and volunteers.

Rey has had a passion for graphic design ever since she pirated Adobe Photoshop for the first time in middle school and never looked back. Before joining A/B Partners, Rey worked at Mother NY contributing to their 2019 Pride campaign, as an exhibition assistant for artist and educator Nontsikelelo Mutiti, and at VCU’s Student Media Center designing for the school's award-winning independent student newspaper The Commonwealth Times. In her spare time she is a member of the queer and trans Asian multi-format publisher OTHER PUBLISHING with work retailed and showcased at Printed Matter (Chelsea), XXXI, and William & Mary’s Special Collections.

Justin Fulton is a multi-disciplinary creative who has worked directly with visionaries — global creative directors, fashion designers, CEOs — to capture the essence of their ideas, while taking into account their commerce needs, creating strategic and compelling brand content and digital experiences. Before joining A/B, Justin amassed over 10 years working primarily within luxury fashion and lifestyle, wearing multiple creative hats at agencies, brands, and publications like CR Fashion Book, Jed Root, Vince and Max Mara. In these spaces his love for visual narrative unfolded, but something was missing. It was his personal project — the creation of the Very Black t-shirt and subsequent co-founding of The Very Black Project in 2014 — where a desire to take his talents into the spaces of philanthropy and social impact was fostered. Justin brings with him to A/B a mission to harness the power of beautiful design and authentic storytelling to amplify the voices of the systemically oppressed. A clean design sensibility, inspired choices and a thoughtful, at times subversive approach, pervade his work.

Joseph Huff-Hannon comes to A/B with over 15 years of experience in issue and electoral campaigning, working in the US, and across Latin America. At global campaigning network Avaaz, Joseph's most recent professional home, he raised millions online to back grassroots groups and creative projects worldwide, and led campaigns on climate, conservation, human rights, anti-corruption and more. In 2018 he helped set up a novel anti-disinformation research team in Brazil, to track and analyze the tsunami of fake news that aided and abetted the rise of right-wing Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Joseph was also on the founding campaigns team, with Andre Banks, of All Out, where he helped develop and grow the organization’s brand, partnership network, and its global membership from scratch. Joseph is also a co-founder of the activist training program The Yes Lab, and is a published author and playwright.

Cora Kim is a graphic designer based in Montreal, Canada. She has been developing her skills for nearly a decade, working with illustration, photo collage, art directing campaigns and developing brand identities for local artists, festivals and nonprofits. Her evolution into graphic design began while exploring a career in fashion. This led her to fibre arts, ceramics, dance, music and acting, all of which inform her design. She is a co-founder of the Montreal Kiki Ballroom Alliance, a non-profit providing opportunities and resources for BIPOC queer/trans youth within the Montreal Ballroom community. Cora is part of the international House of Amazon, led by Icon Leiomy Maldonado, and has a line of porcelain tableware under the name Mikaroc.

Jeremy Knight is a cultural strategist telling undeniable stories that drive people to act. He has spent his career untangling complex issues in media, culture, and politics; all to help people from marginalized communities see their interests, style, and aspirations reflected in the media and products they consume. His previous work leading communications at Students for Education Reform and Bellwether Education Partners leveraged marketing and grassroots organizing to improve schooling in America. Jeremy has built highly effective teams, advised dozens of social justice organizations, and trained hundreds of young activists. He has led digital strategy for a $20 million initiative on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, worked with the City of Sydney to improve commuter and recreational cycling rates in the city, and led a winning field effort for a contentious school board race in Los Angeles.

Clarence is brings over 15 years experience leading teams, building brands and creating compelling, culturally relevant content. Strategy and creative direction are hard-wired into his decision-making process, working seamlessly as a creative strategist, art director, writer and marketer. He has led world-class organizations to find their identity, and create globally recognized, award-winning work. Past clients include adidas, Amazon, Canada Goose, Doctors Without Borders, IKEA, Lululemon, McDonald’s, Nike, New Era, Olympic Games, Oh! Henry, Red Bull, Red Cross, Timberland and Vice. As cultural contributor, Clarence has been involved in numerous art projects. His writing and contributions have been featured at the MOMA, Complex, Milk Magazine and Hypebeast. Clarence comes to A/B after a long tenure at Concrete Design as a key member of their senior leadership team.

Ana uses storytelling as a revolutionary means to create innovative, holistic, and radical approaches to community-building and healing. Her perspective is influenced by political theories such as Pan-Africanism, Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Africana Womanism. Before joining A/B Partners, Ana was a Coro Fellow where she used her marketing and communications expertise to carry out social impact projects at Accenture, the NYC Department of Buildings, Via Collective, Covenant House International, and Worker’s Justice Project. Ana graduated Cum Laude from the City College of New York with a B.A in Political Science and International Studies, and intends to utilize her knowledge to pursue a master’s in Urban Planning.

Jennifer Ryder is a Senior Associate at A/B Partners working across a range of areas including strategy development, content production and project management. Jennifer has previously worked with the National Youth Council of Ireland, EMILY’s List, and Women in Foreign Policy in marketing, communications, and events. A Dublin native, Jennifer graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a B.A. in History and Political Science.

Isabella Sehringer is a New Jersey-based creative producer with a passion for digital film and storytelling. From a young age, she would film and edit videos to inform, inspire, and move her audience; naturally, she progressed to working independently with non-profits, publications, and brands to produce documentaries and digital content. Growing up between the United States and Argentina, her personal work is rooted in sharing and amplifying the stories of Latinos, women of color, and immigrants. Isabella holds a B.A. in Communication and Latino & Caribbean Studies from Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Kahlil Shepard is a multifaceted producer working at the intersection of experiential production, communications, and visual storytelling. Before joining A/B, Kahlil worked as a coordinator for the past two New York Fashion Weeks, while also freelancing on commercial projects for top brands such as Kith , Apple Music and Cartier. While finishing his B.S in journalism, he interned at a number of NGO’s and nonprofits concentrating on key issues affecting minority communities including labor rights, indigenous poverty, and racial disparities within education. Kahlil completed a graduate program in advanced media production technology at VCU School of the Arts in spring of 2019.

Carmela Wilkins is a Graphic Designer with A/B Partners. With a dedication to working in philanthropy, non-profit, and social impact spaces, Carmela is no stranger to wearing many hats. She has previously worked for the McNulty Foundation as a Communications Coordinator while freelancing as a Graphic Designer. At the intersection of her creative practice, environmental justice, the African diaspora, and identity have harmonized through group exhibitions, artist residencies, climate advocacy, and lobbying. Carmela is bringing her diverse background to A/B partners to elicit change with vulnerable communities through human-centered design and inclusive creative strategies.