Mo Shatara
SENIOR ADVOCACY & INNOVATION STRATEGIST
Mo Shatara is a Director with NEWCO Strategies and most recently served as Deputy Director of the Michigan Coordinated Campaign during the election of President Joe Biden and the re-election of Senator Gary Peters.
During his work over the last decade, he has seen firsthand how little credence the voices of lower-income communities receive in U.S. institutions and how often communities of color are undervalued. Mo is committed to amplifying these voices and working with progressive organizations to help them identify and uplift these voices in their own coalitions. He is a believer that organizing is rooted in community building and the creation of collective power.
Mo has done electoral organizing work at the state, congressional, and municipal levels in 13 states over the last 10 years beginning in 2011 working with county commission candidates in Alachua County, FL. In the years since, Mo has helped elect Democratic Governors in Virginia and Illinois in back-to-back years and ran coordinated campaign efforts with congressional and state legislative candidates. He worked on the 2012 campaign of President Barack Obama and the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and served as the Nevada Organizing Director with Pete for America. Mo’s most recent electoral work was as Deputy Director of the Michigan Coordinated Campaign during the election of President Joe Biden and the re-election of Senator Gary Peters.
