our team
Kate gage
Executive director
Kate Gage (she/hers) focuses on the use of technology and innovation to solve complicated challenges. She spent 8 years in the Obama Administration focusing on innovation and global development at USAID and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 2018, she was the Chief of Staff for the March for Our Lives, working with the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and other organizers in the lead up to the mass mobilization and march on 3/24. She is a Co-Founder of Lab 736, an organization that deploys design and tech talent into local progressive political organizations to ensure they are leveraging technology and data adoption to win elections.
Kate started her political career in Iowa in 2007 as a part of the Obama '08 Campaign.
Oluwakemi Oso
Senior program manager
Oluwakemi “Kemi” Oso (she/hers) has been working within progressive tech spaces since 2015. Her “Left Brain, Right Soul” philosophy leans on her experience as a data engineer, and background as an organizer for reproductive justice and founding organizing chair of BYP100’s DC chapter. This holistic approach uses pop culture & accessible language to break down data & tech concepts - making them more accessible to folks of all backgrounds. Kemi coordinated re:power’s Data x Tech Movement Fellowship in partnership with Ford Foundation, and has trained thousands of organizers.
In 2020, she began working with the Cooperative Impact Lab as a Data Consultant for their Fair Housing cohort. As Senior Program manager, she is excited to establish CIL as the “R&D wing of the movement”, bringing innovative practices to smaller organizations who often get left behind.
josh wolf
Finance & Operations Consultant
FACTS PROGRAM LEAD
For the past three years, Josh (he/his) has provided finance and operation training, coaching, and services to over 100 startup and growing multi-entity social justice , rare disease, fair housing, and technology focused nonprofits.
Prior to this work, Josh served as the Chief Operating Officer for Cory Booker’s Presidential Campaign, Director of Operations for the Mozilla Foundation, Director of Operations for MoveOn.org, Director of Data Services for the Democratic National Committee, and over a decade in political organizing and management. Throughout each recent finance and operation role, Josh established and managed the technology and financial and operating systems and providers that ensured the organizations he served were resilient, sustainable, and had a solid foundation for growth. Through CIL’s FACTS program, Josh aims to ensure that startup and growth social justice nonprofits have the same access to technology, systems, and providers coupled with finance and operational management capacity. In doing so, Josh believes these nonprofits will scale and grow more quickly and with less stress, thereby achieving more and more of each nonprofit’s mission and impact.
Board of Directors
Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Kairos Fellowship
Nick Chedli Carter, Resilient Democracy Fund
James Bradach, People’s Action