Our team.

As a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, State Navigate is led by its Board of Directors, who are evenly divided among political party identification. Its staff consists of experts across the political spectrum: conservatives, liberals, and independents, who are dedicated to giving an unbiased and transparent approach to covering state legislatures and curating the data for them. Presently, our staff is situated across four states in the northeast and south.

The political and data science committee are occasional volunteer positions with members across the country who lend a hand to our organization via data analysis, creation, and curation. The development committee is responsible for helping guide and advise the general development of the organization, planning and managing organizational projects and/or ventures, plugging their network into the work of State Navigate, and/or any other matters related to the development and expansion of the organization.

Meet the team.

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Board of directors

8 members

Chair of the boardMonica Huegel

Monica is the president and owner of a research and strategic intelligence consulting firm that serves campaigns, public affairs organizations, nonprofits, law firms, and corporations across the United States. Although an Arizona native, Monica is a graduate of Hollins University and American University and is based in Washington, DC.

Vice chair of the boardPatrick Ruffini

Patrick Ruffini is a founding partner at Echelon Insights, a leading public opinion and strategic research firm known for methodological innovation and forecasting accuracy. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books on American politics and regularly provides analysis for mainstream media outlets. Ruffini has led hundreds of research and strategy projects and previously held senior roles at the Republican National Committee and on President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.

Secretary & treasurerJake Hurwitz

Jake is the VP of ConsultingRonnie, a boutique not-for-profit fundraising and management consulting firm. He holds an MFA and MBA from Yale Universities’ Schools of Drama and Management, as well as a BA in Economics from Brandeis University.

Board memberBob Thomas

Bob served six years on the Stafford County Board of Supervisors from 2012 to 2018 and as a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2018 to 2020.

Board memberJacob Fish

Jacob Fish is a senior strategy leader with deep experience applying political data and analysis to guide campaigns, advocacy efforts, and executive decision making. He currently serves as Managing Director at Stand Together, and previously held the position of Deputy Director at the Virginia Chapter of Americans for Prosperity and also previously led political campaigns for multiple Virginia House of Delegate races. Jacob and his family live in Richmond, Virginia.

Board memberDa'Quan Marcell Love

Da’Quan Marcell Love is a political strategist and nonprofit executive with experience in campaign strategy, fundraising, and advocacy. He serves as Principal and CEO of Reflex Strategy Group, advising candidates, PACs, nonprofits, and public affairs organizations across the country. Da’Quan previously served as Executive Director of the NAACP’s Virginia State Conference and North Carolina State Conference and lives in Henrico, Virginia.

Board memberSteve White

Steve is an attorney/CPA who practiced law for decades in West Virginia, with an emphasis on financing transactions and government relations. Steve has been involved in dozens of political campaigns, and was a former co-chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party. He has also been heavily involved in business, most recently co-founding a long-term health company emplyoing several thousands of associates. He is on the Board of Directors of a national insurance company and a national energy company.

Board memberGeorge Aposporos

George’s background is in innovation and growth strategies – often leveraging technology and consumer shifts – for tech start-ups, public companies, and upstart NGOs. As the founding VP of Business Development at Amazon, George was instrumental in helping the company scale from 300,000 to 11 million customers in 2 years. At Clean Water Action, George helped launch the grassroots fundraising operation. George is pleased to help State Navigate make state government more user-friendly.

Staff

4 members

Executive directorChaz Nuttycombe

Chaz was the Director of CNalysis.com, the only website dedicated to state legislative election forecasting. He has successfully forecasted thousands of state legislative elections since 2017 during his senior year in high school. Born in Newport News, Chaz grew up in Hanover and Henrico Counties, VA, and graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor’s in Political Science in May 2024. He is the founder of State Navigate and became Executive Director of the organization in July 2025.

Elections coordinatorMichael Foley

Michael is an expert in GIS technology and has experience in coding and scraping technology. He is a graduate of Fordham University and the University of Chicago Law School. He became our Elections Coordinator in July 2025, and is responsible for collecting election and demographic data, helping with election night operations, and researching elections operations in all fifty states.

Creative directorJack Kersting

Jack was the co-runner of CNalysis.com and runs his own election forecasting website, JHK Forecast. He graduated with a Bachelor’s with a double major in both finance and economics from the University of Alabama in 2023 and a Master’s in finance in 2024. Jack became the Development Director of State Navigate in 2025 and is responsible for leading design projects across our data collection and creation processes.

Data managerMary Radcliffe

Mary Radcliffe is a mathematician and data analyst from Pittsburgh. She earned a PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego in 2012. Mary has previously worked as a Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Researcher at FiveThirtyEight. She became the Data Manager at State Navigate in 2025 and is responsible for creating and managing various databases that State Navigate uses for its content.

Committees.

Independent expertise, shared purpose.

Political and data science committee

The political & data science committee is dedicated to political science and data science as the organization works on developing its databases and methodologies, crunching data, and when applicable, conducting polls and other forms of research.

9 members

Political science chairNicholas Goedert

Nicholas Goedert is an assistant professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech with expertise focused on legislative elections and American politics. He is the author of Ground War: Courts, Commissions, and the Fight over Partisan Gerrymanders, published by Oxford University in 2022. His research has been published in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and the Election Law Journal. He served as an expert witness in the Wisconsin redistricting case Whitford v. Gill (adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court during summer 2018), and also serves on the Executive Board of the voting rights advocacy group UpVote Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Political science vice chairSteven Rogers

Steven Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Louis University, the Director of the SLU/YouGov Poll, and previously worked in state legislative campaigns. His book Accountability in State Legislatures is the most comprehensive academic account of state legislative elections. Rogers’s research focuses on elections and state politics and is published in The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Data science chairCharlie Kramer

Charlie Kramer retired from a 30-year career at the International Monetary Fund to study for an MS in Analytics from Georgia Tech with the aim to do volunteer data work. He is a Bluebonnet Data Fellow, trained with Generation Data and has contributed to Parsons Data open-source software. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Virginia and lives outside DC with his wife, daughter, 3 dogs and many guitars.

Data science memberJackson Martin

Jackson previously worked at CNalysis as the Head Oddsmaker from 2019 to 2022, and continued work on various models until CNalysis closed at the end of 2024. For his full-time job, Jackson works as a Mechanical Engineer in the Power Industry. Jackson is native to Johnson County, Kansas, and still lives there today.

Data science memberJoe Carroll

Joe Carroll is a research analyst with a Master’s degree in Applied Sociology. His passions are demographic research, social network theory, and campaign analysis.

Data science memberColin Miller

Colin Miller is the founder of redistricter.com, a web application for political and demographic data visualization. He’s currently based in Manhattan, New York.

Data science memberDrew Savicki

Drew Savicki is an election mapping fanatic based in North Carolina. He’s mapped election data for six years for elections from state legislatures to the federal government.

Data science memberJoshua Metcalf

Josh Metcalf is an undergraduate at Santa Clara University majoring in Political Science. His main interests are electoral politics, geospatial analysis, and the evolution of political coalitions over time.

Data science memberAlan Zhang

Alan Zhang is an undergraduate Political Science / Data Analytics student at University of California San Diego. He has an obsession with college basketball and elections, and was previously an intern at CNalysis.

Development committee

2 members

Committee memberG. Elliott Morris

Elliott Morris is a data-driven journalist and author living in Washington, DC. He’s the author of STRENGTH IN NUMBERS: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them. Elliott was most recently the Editorial Director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he developed polling aggregation and election-forecasting models and managed the research and data visualization teams for ABC’s data-journalism website FiveThirtyEight/538. Elliott writes a regular blog/newsletter about politics, polling, and elections through the lens of data and statistical analysis.

Committee memberAdam Belmar

Adam Belmar, founder of Advocacy Content Kitchen and former Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States, brings extensive experience in digital media content creation and political podcasting. His career includes roles as Senior Producer at ABC News, where his work earned multiple prestigious awards including a George Foster Peabody Award, and he holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Boston University.

API governance committee

4 members

ChairAnshi Patel

Anshi has spent the last 6 years in the tech sector, working as a Product Manager and Solutions Consultant for a data-intensive platform. A graduate of New York University in Politics and Mathematics, she now serves as a strategist at an education consulting non-profit.

Vice chairMatt Popovich

Matt Popovich is a Staff Engineer at Forge in San Francisco. Previously, he was an engineer at Amazon and Morning Consult, founded a legislative tracking startup, started a YIMBY Action chapter, and worked as a consultant in DC for numerous Democratic political campaigns.

Secretary & treasurerMax Shapiro

Max Shapiro has spent the last 18 years working on state and local political campaigns in Virginia including 4 years working as the legislative director for a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He currently runs LegislativeAssistant.AI, a decision-support workspace for Virginia’s legislature and local governments.

Committee memberCharlie Kramer

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