Orca is a three-partner firm. The first people you meet with are the ones who will stick it out through your campaign — not an account handoff to someone who has never been to your district.
Campaign work is judgment under deadline. All three partners work every engagement directly, so the people you hire are the people doing the work.
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Donald Olson is a current Columbia University Student and Mt. Edgecumbe Alumni. He maintains close connections to youth across Alaska and understands the demographic well. Born and raised in Golovin, he has also lived in Juneau, Utqiagvik (Barrow), and Anchorage.
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Cash Arrington is a student at Harvard College studying Political Science and Economics. He specializes in planning and youth voter outreach, utilizing his connections across the state from work and university. He is based in the Norton Sound region and is most familiar with the communities of Nome, Anchorage, and Sitka.
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Jared Cross is a Northwestern University student and an Iñupiaq shareholder from Elim, born and raised in Nome. A certified Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED instructor, he has led trainings and community outreach across the Norton Sound region and keeps close ties to youth in Nome and the surrounding villages.
Consulting relationships go wrong in predictable ways. These are the commitments we make at the start of every engagement.
You get the real vote goal and the real budget it takes to reach it: numbers you can plan against, not numbers that sound good.
The candidate, the campaign, and the vendors all work from the same document. When it changes, everyone sees the change.
No bait-and-switch. The people in the pitch are the people on the weekly call.
Youth outreach isn't a line item we add at the end. It's the reason to hire us, and it's measured against its own goal every week.
We work the whole state, from Anchorage and Fairbanks to communities you can only reach by plane. Travel is budgeted from day one, not improvised in October.
We hire Alaskans who want to work on campaigns: cycle staff, fellows, and organizers, especially people early in their careers who want real responsibility on a real race instead of a summer of data entry.
Tell us the office, the district, and the date. We'll tell you what it takes to win it.
