In the news
What reporters wrote when they came to us for the Michigan angle. Every piece here is linked, and none of it is ours.
“First I see Tyra on the side of the road with her suitcase and everything. So I pull up, turn my hazards on, act like an Uber…”
Connor Berdy, founder of Vote for Change, in WIRED — on a canvasser Elon Musk’s America PAC fired and left by the road. He got her home.
Named in print
Two pieces where a reporter described Vote for Change in their own words.
WIRED
First I see Tyra on the side of the road with her suitcase and everything. So I pull up, turn my hazards on, act like an Uber…
Connor Berdy, named in the piece as founder of Vote for Change LLC, on finding a 20-year-old canvasser stranded after she spoke up. He paid for her flight home.
Bridge Michigan
Trying to paint it as Jewish voters versus Arab or Muslim voters, progressive versus establishment — it makes for a punchy headline… but that’s completely not the case.
Elena Greer on the state convention. The piece quotes Connor Berdy too and describes Vote for Change as a progressive consultancy cooperative.
Called for comment
Reporters call us for the Michigan read. These pieces quote our people without naming the firm, which is how trade press usually works.
MIRS News
AI is slowly being integrated into the overall political ecosystem… a supplement to make you better at your job.
Elena Greer on where the tools actually fit, alongside Mark Grebner of Practical Political Data and Chad Edwards of Western Michigan University.
MIRS Monday
A consultant edition of the Republican–Democratic roundtable, featuring Elena Greer — Democratic political professional in East Lansing.
Data centers and the ’26 elections, whether House Republicans can land property tax reform, and what Garlin Gilchrist does next.
WKAR · NPR Lansing
I think the environment across the country has never been this pro-union since probably back to the original organizing strikes of the UAW.
Connor Berdy, then a legislative aide and one of the lead organizers of the Michigan House staffer union drive, in a full sit-down interview.
Before the company
Vote for Change was founded in 2022. These predate it and don’t mention it — but it is where some of this started.
Pride Source
A profile of a 23-year-old running for Warren City Council, three years before Vote for Change existed. Between The Lines / Pride Source, on Berdy’s first campaign.
Lansing State Journal
I think there is public interest, considering the voter turnout we had.
Elena Greer, then Ingham County Democratic Party secretary, organizing the volunteers for inauguration day.
WILX 10 · Lansing
You have to make sure you have enough seating for everybody. You have to make sure everybody knows where they need to be and when.
The same week, on television. Greer as volunteer coordinator for the inauguration.
For reporters
We talk on the record, and we would rather be quoted accurately than not at all.