As Chief of Staff, Mat works alongside the Executive Director to help grow the organization and build power among its constituents. He provides leadership and management of staff, execution of the organization’s strategic plan, and ensures racial justice and equity is fully integrated into the work at every level. 

Mat has spent more than a decade working to promote economic, racial, and social justice. He joined DC Action after serving as the DC Director for the Working Families Party, a national organization that unites activists, community, and labor organizations to advance systemic change. During his time there, he used electoral, political, and legislative strategies that concentrated on increasing economic security for low-income families and bringing greater fairness and equity to our elections. He helped oversee large and small teams, develop, and set organizational strategy as well as organized and built winning coalitions that united advocates, business owners, faith leaders, policy experts, unions, and other allies. These efforts have resulted in policy changes that have successfully raised statewide minimum wages for more than half a million workers in Maryland and Washington, DC, passed and implemented one of the most progressive public financing of elections programs in the country, and helped secure funding for early childhood education and health programs.

He has worked at the local, national, and international level. A graduate from the City University of New York, he is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, a proud father, and Ward 7 resident.