Meet Our Team
Over the past 8 years, we have had over 300 team members at New Voters! Meet them below:
Leadership
Our leadership team drives New Voters' vision and strategy, ensuring that our mission to empower young voters is at the forefront of everything we do.
Jahnavi Rao
(she/her)President & Founder
Government at Harvard University, Formerly White House, DNC, Harvard Kennedy, and UPenn
Margaux Granath
(she/her)Program Manager
Political Science at University of Minnesota, Girl Scouts of Alaska and Girl Scouts of Montana & Wyoming, Formerly First Amendment organizations
Ashleigh McKenna
(she/her)Chief of Staff
Biology at University of Tampa, Directors Advisory Board Member at Innabah Camp and Retreat Center
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Jessika Landon
(she/her)Communications Manager
Media Arts Production at Emerson College (marketing and digital media), Audience Engagement at Boston Globe Media; formerly 18by Vote, Gray Television
Sydney Fahn
(she/her)Deputy Director NVRN
International Politics at Georgetown University; United States Senate, NY City Council, TAMID Group
National Team
Our national team is the backbone of New Voters, working tirelessly across the country to organize voter registration drives, advocate for youth voter education, and inspire the next generation of civic leaders.
2025 Spring Team
- Jahnavi Rao
- Ashleigh McKenna
- Margaux Granath
- Jessika Landon
- Sydney Fahn
- Advait Rajan
- Josephine Murphy
- Collin Wang
- Anish Garimidi
- Catherine Chan
- Charvi Saxena
- Siya Mishra
- Annie Chen
- Sahana Donepudi
- Sophie Rivell
- Talia Salome
- Kate Larson
- Nikhita Guntupalli
- Claire Pan
- Kinnari Atluru
- Molly Cohen
- Jasmine Bastien
- Henry Pahlow
- Dominick Lombard
- Namrata Venkatesan
- Abigail Starks
- Harjot Sangha
- Gia Han Phan
- Vibha Besagi
- Anika Rigby
- Ciara Whimbush
- Elmar Salvador
- Ananya Ramesh
- Lucy Ford
- Elizabeth Hansen
- Phoebe Chen
- Vanessa Li
- Diza Baryshnikov
- Ciara Essence Whimbush
- Thanvi Voruganti
- Arush Mynampati
- Sahasra Nersu
- Nikita Bhattacharya
- Sidharth Donepudi
- Vivek Sharma
- Josh Katz
- Anoushka Chopra
- Karen Torres
2024 Fall Team
- Jahnavi Rao
- Margaux Granath
- Ashleigh McKenna, PA Coordinator
- Ryan Manthy, Director of Technology
- Sophie Rivell, PA State Lead
- Talia Salome, PA State Lead
- Claire Pan, Social Media Manager
- Annie Chen, AZ State Lead
- Sahana Donepudi, AZ State Lead
- Advait Rajan, AZ Event Coordinator
- Nick Dominguez, Lead Mentor
- Celina Buncayo - Mentor
- Carrie Chen - Mentor
- Collin Wang - Mentor
- Emma Shulz - Mentor
- Akanksha Kasarabada - Mentor
- Liora Petter-Lipstein - mentor
- Nikhita Guntupalli - Content Manager
- Yacoub Kahkajian, Youth Civic Hub
- Alex Panas
- Ariana Singh
- Krish Chatterjee
- Harjot Sangha
- Daniel Kwon
- Myles Cherette
- Rylee Fahn
- Milan Agarwala
2024 Spring-Summer Team
- Nivea Krishnan - Executive Director
- Aayma Hamid - Director of Recruitment
- Matthew Han - Director of Mentorship
- Ryan Manthy - Director of Technology
- Afia Asamoah - Chief of Staff
- Amil Agrawal - Website Manager
- Jahnavi Rao - President and Founder
- Brooke Allan
- Aarushi Arora
- Nehal Bajaj
- Lincoln Baldwin
- Neela Bender
- Nikita Bhattacharya
- Celina Buncayo
- Catherine Chan
- Carrie Chen
- Annie Chen
- Myles Cherette
- Krish Chatterjee
- Rohan Deshpande
- Aryav Dhar
- Nick Dominguez
- Sanaha Donepudi
- Abi Felan
- Rylee Fahn
- Grace Castelin
- Eloise Gordon
- Nikhita Guntupalli
- Kellen Habibelahy
- Nathan Han
- Saif Khan
- Taek Kim
- Taekyong Kim
- Yacoub Kahkajian
- Siddharth Karthik
- Daniel Kwon
- Kaley Kwan
- Chanda Le
- Christine Li
- Bethley Luctama
- Amelia McDonough
- Aveeva Mirchandani
- Manav Mahida
- Alexander Panas
- Claire Pan
- Lia Pascual
- Luca Moynier
- Kaden Ouimet
- Talia Salome
- Harjot Sangha
- Saranya Singh
- Ariana Singh
- Marivi Sifuentes
- Sophie Rivell
- Sonja Aibel
- Summer Tan
- Varsha Iyengar
- Chris Yoo
- George Zhang
- Tina Zeng
- 2023 Team - 71 people
- 2022 Team - 44 people
- 2021 Team - 56 people
- 2020 Team - 32 people
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