Our Team

Lift Every Vote is an all-volunteer organization, powered by the labor, creativity, and funding of our members. We have about 80 group leaders across 14 states. Our Facebook group has over 3,000 members, and close to 8,000 people have worked on our projects. Meet our leadership team:

Jeanne Heifetz
Research and Project Design, Co-Founder, Largest Generation Project

Jeanne Heifetz ran her first voter-registration drive in 1988, registering 2000 voters over four days. She’s been dedicated to voter registration and voting rights ever since. In recent years, she has organized large-scale volunteer projects in support of the restoration of voting rights to formerly incarcerated Floridians and to help residents of tribal reservations in North Dakota obtain the ID needed to vote. In 2020 she joined with Kim (who happens to be her cousin) to start The Largest Generation, and is a designer of The Largest Generation Project at Lift Every Vote. She likes to carry voter-registration forms in her backpack so they’re always handy.

Joyce Hackett
Founder & Executive Director, Lift Every Vote

Joyce Hackett is a prizewinning author whose work has been translated into 17 languages. A former high school math teacher, and university creative writing professor, she’s a longtime community organizer who’s organized multiple large-scale, place-based public education writing projects, including Washington Write-a-Story Day. She founded Lift Every Vote to engage activists to prioritize high-impact voting with lasting results. She’s at work on a novel about Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, and the post-war moment at which the suffrage and abolition movements parted ways. Joyce is responsible for the architecture of LEV’s voting projects, and bringing together the stakeholders needed to execute them.

Kim Sillen
Co-Founder, Largest Generation Project, Graphic Design, Strategy

Kim Sillen creates graphic design and public messaging for the City of New York. She earned a Masters of Public Administration from Baruch College, where her thesis examined methods to increase youth voter turnout. In 2020, she and Jeanne Heifetz created The Largest Generation, working with a dozen high-school and college students to create informational images and animations aimed at youth explaining voter registration. Kim’s designs were used by youth organizations and on college campuses in 11 states, and even appeared on New York City taxis!

Liza Abraham, Data & Digital Organizing

Liza Abraham is a Data Fellow at Civera, and completed Columbia Engineering’s Data Analytics Bootcamp in 2022.. Having worked for 10 years in Victims’ Services for the State of Minnesota, she also has extensive state government experience. She’s veteran of numerous voter protection operations, and has worked with election officials, candidates, and attorneys to solve voting problems through education. She also has a Level 3 wine certification, and loves discussing things like mouth-feel, and terroir.

Wendy Salz, Business Development Consultant

Wendy Salz is a veteran business development and marketing executive, who loves building educational, corporate, and non-profit organizations, and the relationships they need. She’s also a certified financial advisor in a previous life. In addition to co-founding a thriving public charter school in Los Angeles, she’s has organized youth programs for the east coast region of the Unitarian Universalist Church. She designed a rape awareness ad campaign that appeared on NYC public transit and was featured on Law & Order: SVU. Between walks with her springer spaniel, Wendy advises on our organizational and partnerships development.