Advance Group’s Rachel Mann Makes City Hall News 40 Under 40 List

City Hall News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The Advance Group creates events, writes ads, develops political commercials—in other words, the bread and butter of successful ground campaigns. The group’s COO, Bronx native Rachel Mann, has been intertwined with politics for more than a decade, ever since she received a full-time internship to work on Mark Green’s 1993 campaign for public advocate.

“I had never done anything like it before, but I jumped in with both feet,” she recalled.

She was still in high school, taking time off to work for the campaign. While attending college at Antioch in Yellow Springs, she worked for the Advance Group, and after graduating she found herself back working for Green, this time as the deputy finance director of his 1998 U.S. Senate primary campaign.

“I was lucky enough on that campaign to be involved in every aspect, from focus groups to fundraising to political strategy,” she said. “I just got hooked.”

That multifaceted experience has helped her craft media and consulting campaigns for the Advance Group, which has run successful ad campaigns for State Sen. Diane Savino, the Working Families Party and multiple labor groups.

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