Our People

Brent Blackaby

Brent Blackaby is a principal and co-founder of Blackrock Associates. He currently manages the firm's online strategy work for Senators Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, and Patrick Leahy along with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, and Governor Don Siegelman, among other clients.  In particular, Blackaby has helped Senator Boxer build a substantial email list that has raised several million dollars online for her political organizations and for other candidates over the past two cycles.  For the firm's work, Blackrock Associates has been awarded twenty "Pollie" awards from the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) and three "Golden Dot" awards from the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet (IPDI) for achievements in viral video, flash animation, podcasting, and website design.  In 2003, Blackaby helped lead the Draft Wes Clark movement before serving as Clark's online fundraising director during the 2004 presidential campaign, helping raise more than $7 million online -- 40% of the campaign's total fundraising effort.

Before joining Clark for President, Blackaby worked in senior technology marketing roles, as a product marketing manager for E*TRADE, and as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco. Blackaby graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Economics.

Larry Huynh

Larry Huynh is a principal and co-founder of Blackrock Associates. Last fall, Huynh managed the online strategy and fundraising programs for the winning campaigns of Senators Tim Johnson and Mark Udall. In 2006, Huynh helped elect Sens. Jim Webb and Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Nick Lampson. Blackrock was key to Webb's victory by coordinating and achieving the viralization of the "Macaca" video and raising more than $4 million online. Huynh was chosen as one of Campaigns & Elections Magazine's 2007 "Rising Stars" in politics. In 2003, Huynh helped lead the Draft Wes Clark movement before serving as Clark's online fundraising and communications strategist during the 2004 presidential campaign, helping raise more than $7 million online -- 40% of the campaign's total fundraising effort.

Before joining Clark for President, Huynh worked in high-tech, marketing, and as a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. Huynh graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Biochemical Sciences.

Mike Disharoon

Before joining Blackrock Associates, Mike was a Press Assistant in Representative Edward J. Markey's (D-MA) Washington, DC office, where he assisted the Communications Director in day-to-day press shop activites, drafted blog posts and led blogger outreach, and managed content on the Congressman's official website.

Prior to his time on Capitol Hill, Mike worked in the online communications department at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and was a fundraising assistant for the Tim Kaine for Governor campaign in Virginia. Mike recently received his Masters' Degree from the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University. Mike graduated cum laude from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics and a second major in Philosophy.

Jamie Ruth

Prior to joining Blackrock Associates, Jamie served as the Chair of the College Democrats chapter at the University of Michigan.  Jamie oversaw an overhaul of the organization’s web site, implementing the latest in Web 2.0 opportunities for political outreach.  Through the development of a new volunteer management system, blog, internship database, podcast, video, and e-mail messaging strategies, the organization attracted and activated hundreds of new members, enhancing its grassroots campaign efforts in the lead up the 2006 midterm election.

Prior to graduation, Jamie interned for the John Kerry for President Campaign and the Advance Group, Inc. political consulting firm in New York, as well as the D.C.-based internet strategy firm, EchoDitto. Jamie hails from the New York area but has found his calling in the San Francisco Bay Area as a Blackrock Consultant and outdoor enthusiast. Jamie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science.

Chase Mohney

Chase's political involvement began in high school when he served as a student coordinator for public education advocacy group Kids Education Yes in his hometown of Great Falls, MT, canvassing and organizing voter registration drives. Most recently, he has interned in the regional field office of Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), providing constituent services to Montana's large population of veterans, and worked as a Production Associate with Let's Go Publications, providing design and production support for the production of 15 international travel guides in the 2007 series.

Chase also created a comprehensive legislative and state agency engagement plan for Easter Seals-Goodwill Northern Rocky Mountain, utilizing traditional and innovative technology strategy to identify and secure new funding streams for Easter Seals-Goodwill programs. Now in its third year of implementation, the plan has been adopted by numerous Easter Seals affiliates nationwide and identified by the national Easter Seals Office of Public Affairs as highly successful. Chase graduated cum laude from Harvard University, with a B.A. in History and Literature and a citation in French.

Perry Rosenstein

Perry Rosenstein joined Blackrock as an Associate Consultant in February of 2009. 

Perry came to Blackrock from the Obama campaign, after working as an intern on the New Media data, design, and MyBO teams in Chicago before serving as New Media Director for Nevada in the general election. Prior to the Obama campaign, Perry worked as a product marketing analyst at Facebook, and has developed and managed dozens of Facebook web applications.

Perry graduated in 2007 with a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

Will Bunnett

Prior to joining Blackrock, Will spent a year on the email team at Obama for America, where he was Senior Email Writer and Producer.  He specialized in rapid response projects, taking particular responsibility for the Obama Action Wire list and the Fight the Smears microsite.  He also worked extensively with fundraising, messaging, and organizing emails.

Before the Obama campaign, Will was a web content producer at the Rockridge Institute, the think tank dedicated to applying George Lakoff's theories of cognitive metaphor to progressive politics.  He earned a Master of Arts degree in Social Sciences, with a focus on political psychology, from the University of Chicago in 2007 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Culture & Politics from Georgetown University in 2003.

Jarrett Fein

Jarrett joined Blackrock in 2009 after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley. While in college, Jarrett co-founded the Berkeley Dance Marathon, a benefit event for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Under his leadership, the annual event grew to become one of the largest student-led philanthropies on the Berkeley campus, and was twice recognized with The Best Social Event award by the Dean of Student's office. Jarrett also served as a Deputy Chief of Staff for the Associated Students of the University of California, the nation's most autonomous student governing body, overseeing the Office of the President's outreach efforts.

Jarrett has worked as a video editor and graphic designer for various media, including print, web, and most recently, mobile phone application user interfaces. Jarrett graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Political Science, with a special emphasis on campaign politics and strategy.  He also studied international politics at L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Lyon, France.