Ben is a political organizer specializing in high-impact messaging for disillusioned and hard-to-reach audiences, both in and out of election cycles. Before Evergreen, he served as the Pennsylvania State Director at Rise, a leading statewide youth voter engagement organization. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in Political Science and studied on exchange at Sciences Po Paris.

Originally from Berlin and now based in Pittsburgh, Ben spends his free time hunting for unique furniture on Facebook Marketplace and volunteering at legal clinics for asylum seekers.