Building values-aligned AI for mission-driven organizations.

Craig has been the driving force behind the development of Change Agent AI’s platform as Co-Founder, CTO, and President of Change Agent AI. In the summer of 2023, when most of the world was still asking "wait, what is ChatGPT?", Craig saw the opportunity to build generative AI specifically for social change organizations. Not a generalist tool with a nonprofit discount code, but something built from the ground up with the sector’s values, needs, and workflows in mind.

Prior to Change Agent, Craig specialized in building AI tools and leveraging emerging technologies for political and civic engagement including Team Pelosi, Americans For Tax Fairness, Alliance for Retired Americans, Future Coalition, and the Civic Digital Organizing Group, among others. He is also the co-founder of Unfiltered Media and serves as a Senior Advisor to Blue Future and the Civic Digital Organizing Group. Craig holds an M.A. in American Government and Politics from American University and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Arizona.

Tyler McFadden ensures that Change Agent’s language model stays aligned with the values of the social sector as Co-Founder and Chief Alignment Officer. She is primarily responsible for stewarding our commitment to building values alignment into every layer of the platform. Her organizing and advocacy background inform her efforts to ensure our LLM prioritizes nonprofit values, voices, and priorities rather than replicating systemic biases as commercial LLMs do.

She previously led tech justice at Color Of Change and has held roles at Common Defense, the North Star Liberty Group, the National Voter Protection Action Fund, and Pacific Environment. Tyler holds an M.P.S. in Political Management and B.A. in American Studies/Civilization and Sociology from George Washington University.

Heidi Sieck is an award-winning civic entrepreneur with a lifetime commitment to political organizing and foundational systems change. As Chief Experience Officer at Change Agent AI, she brings tremendous access to the nonprofit ecosystem, decades of relationship-building across campaigns and advocacy organizations, and a track record of building civic technology organizations from the ground up.

Heidi previously co-founded #VOTEPROCHOICE and served as founding Chief Operating Officer of Civic Hall and Democracy.com in New York City, and interim COO of Rock the Vote. She has worked on eight presidential campaigns and has been recognized with awards including the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee Organizer of the Year, the New Founders Feminist of the Year Award, and the Harvard Kennedy School Innovations in Government Award, among others. Heidi started her career in civic innovation when she led Mayor Gavin Newsom’s award-winning 311 Customer Service Center, a transformational $25 million project establishing the foundation of the open government movement in the U.S. She also had a career in disaster response and recovery and founded one of the nation’s first post-disaster resilience projects.

She holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Nebraska and a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she received the Holly Taylor Sargent Award for Advancement of Women in Leadership. She holds an AI Business Intelligence Certification from MIT Sloan School of Management exploring the implementations of AI in campaign infrastructure and the voter file.

Severan Johnson is Chief Operating Officer of Change Agent AI, bringing a background in sales, strategy, and startup operations that began as Director of Operations at a nonprofit in Uganda and developed through the founding team at Vinyl Me, Please ($0–$15M in three years), the CEO seat at UpSync (Boulder enterprise SaaS), four years of enterprise revenue operations at Opensense, and GTM and AI strategy at No Fluff Selling, along with advising YC and Techstars portfolio AI/ML companies including Percept.AI (acquired by Atlassian) and Trust & Will.

He holds a BBA in Management from Belmont University, where he was named Servant Leader Student of the Year his senior year.

Andrea Haverdink brings a dynamic combination of skills to her role as Chief of Staff, grounded in her years serving as a communications consultant at Unfiltered Media and digital director of Americans for Tax Fairness. Andrea is the operational backbone that enables Change Agent AI’s leadership team to execute with speed and strategic clarity. She brings an organizer’s mindset to internal coordination, making sure that the company’s mission-driven culture is reflected not just in its product but in how it operates day-to-day. Her direct experience as a practitioner in the nonprofit and advocacy space gives her unique credibility in understanding client needs and translating them into organizational priorities.

Alissa Brandon brings a multidisciplinary background to her role as Head of Customer Success, having built experience in scientific research, campaign operations, and political organizing through prior roles at Boston Scientific, the Jennifer Williams for State Senate Campaign, and Contest Every Race. Alissa is the human face of Change Agent AI’s promise that the company doesn’t hand clients software and disappear, but instead stays engaged through workflow building, staff training, and adoption.

Alissa’s combination of scientific rigor, campaign experience, and commitment to nonprofit action makes her an outstanding partner to mission-driven clients. Alissa leverages her PMP to guide our enterprise clients through implementation and training, from “AI-ifying” their workflows to navigating adoption challenges to training users across departments. She also leads Change Agent’s bootcamp program, which trains dozens of Change Agent users every month. She holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University.

Nicolai Haddal is the Software Architect at Change Agent AI where he is responsible for the technical systems that power Change Agent AI’s walled-garden approach to data security and its mission-aligned AI capabilities. His unusual combination of AI expertise and public policy advocacy gives him the technical precision to build tech that meets the particular needs of social sector professionals.

Nicolai co-developed AI tools with Change Agent Co-Founder Craig Johnson including Foreteller, a classifier AI enabling organizations to run complex language analysis at scale, learning that directly informed the architecture of the Change Agent platform. He also held positions at the Coalition on Human Needs and other major national progressive organizations. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis.

Jacob Jackson translates Change Agent AI’s technical capabilities into practical, customized implementations for clients as Director of AI Solutions. His combination of technical fluency and sector-specific experience makes him a trusted partner for organizations navigating the transition to AI-integrated operations.

Jake built his career across a range of roles including Executive Director at Bluebonnet Data, Data Director for the Rhode Island Democratic Party, and Political Technology Specialist for Susan Wild for Congress with DigiDems. His background in progressive data and tech infrastructure gives him a grounded understanding of how campaigns, unions, and nonprofits actually use technology to advance their missions, and where off-the-shelf tools consistently fall short. He holds a degree in Mathematical Physics from Brown University, and was an educator and researcher before starting his political tech career in 2020.

Nicole Richardson leads strategic partnerships at Change Agent AI. She spent ten years running programs for the Aga Khan Foundation, Wetlands International, and Oxfam America across the African continent, including a distributed team in rural Madagascar, before moving into partnerships and sales for social enterprises at FUSE Corps, Cluster, and Viamo. She knows what it takes to buy technology inside an organization that answers to funders, boards, and the communities it serves, because she has been on that side of the table.

She holds an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and a B.A. from Georgetown University.

Nina Jayashankar helps new organizations get set up on Change Agent, trains their staff, and answers the first question when something is unclear. She came from ReThink Media, where she managed grants and partnerships for the advocacy groups they support, and before that ran projects for clients in communications, social justice, and accounting.

She holds a B.A. in Theatre and Mathematics from Northwestern University.