who we are

Our National Field Team

Place your cursor over the map to learn more about our National Field Team.

founders:

David Barnhart

A veteran field operations manager with experience in presidential, gubernatorial and local campaigns, David Barnhart combines tested political strategies with seasoned grassroots management to deliver successful results for the Locust Street Group’s corporate clients. Barnhart manages corporate legislative campaigns utilizing Locust Street’s network of grassroots operatives while creating centralized, rapid response campaign war rooms. Barnhart has managed multimillion dollar corporate field campaigns for healthcare, telecommunication and association clients.

Barnhart recently managed DCCC’s winning GOTV campaign in 2006 and was Hillary Clinton’s Iowa Caucus manager. He has managed a gubernatorial race in Nevada and was the field director for the winning campaign of Governor Tim Kaine in Virginia. Barnhart also helped engineer Senator John Kerry’s come-from-behind victory in the 2004 Iowa Caucuses. Barnhart has managed campaigns or field operations in Iowa, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, and Nevada.

Lauren Crawford

At the Locust Street Group, Lauren Crawford balances client relationships while managing national field campaigns, grassroots efforts, building and expanding coalitions and third party outreach on both legislative and political issues. Crawford orchestrates grassroots teams in all fifty states to activate constituents in making their voices heard on specific issues and has run multimillion dollar campaigns for companies and trade associations. Crawford combines her focus on setting and achieving goals to continue to grow projects for her clients. She manages a variety of projects on a variety of scales.

Prior to Locust Street, Crawford worked for a public affairs firm in grassroots management and coalition building. Her past campaign experience includes GOTV work in the presidential primary in 2008 in Iowa, Nevada, and Washington and in the general election in Ohio. She has previous experience working at an educational non-profit organization, a European Embassy Press Office and working for her former U.S. Senator. She is also active in the DC community as a member of the Junior League of Washington and an advisor to undergraduates at the University of Maryland, College Park. Crawford is a graduate from the University of San Diego and is working to complete her Masters from Johns Hopkins University.