What’s Something Super Nerdy About Me?

I never grew out of my nerd phase. I just upgraded the words.

The spelling bee was the start, but what’s truly nerdy about me now is how much I love systems. Not flashy ones. Functional ones.

I can spend hours designing a volunteer engagement ladder or optimizing a door-knocking route. I geek out over spreadsheets the way some people geek out over sports stats. Because to me, every system is a story about human behavior and about what people need in order to act, to believe, to show up.

That’s what drives me. Not just policy or politics, but architecture. How do we build structures that make it easier for people to do good work?

That’s why my campaign isn’t just about persuasion. It’s about reconstruction. Every piece—the field plan, the engagement ladder, the communications approach, the data models—is designed to outlast me.

People think campaigning is about personality. But it’s really about physics, how energy transfers from one person to another. I think about that constantly: the kinetic math of hope.

So yeah, my nerdiest quality is that I can talk about volunteer data and voter contact ratios like some people talk about baseball stats. But that’s the heart of the work.

Because the difference between movements that fade and movements that win isn’t passion. It’s structure.

And if being obsessed with that makes me a nerd, I’ll wear that label proudly.