About Us
Headquartered in Washington DC, Middle Coast LLC has additional offices in New York and California with affiliates in states across the country.
Middle Coast LLC is a team of skilled professionals and passionate advocates. We have decades of experience in the progressive advocacy and campaign world, including nationally targeted congressional, senatorial, presidential campaigns and some of the most influential advocacy campaigns over the last decade. Read more about our partners below:
Erin is a new media strategist with over a decade of experience working with national and state-wide campaigns, organizations and party infrastructure. She most recently served as the Strategic Manager of all progressive clients for New Media Strategies.
Erin specializes in strategic planning, website re-design and new media outreach. She previously served as Director of New Media for Media Matters for America and their C4 arm, Media Matters Action Network, Director of Online Strategy and Communications at Grassroots Democrats – a 527 dedicated to working with Democratic State Parties. She was an Internet Strategist for the Kerry-Edwards 2004 presidential campaign.
Over this time, Hofteig has helped more than 30 State Democratic Parties, a variety of non-profit organizations, unions and individual candidates develop their new media strategy, re-design their online presence and build campaign micro-sites for list building. She also specializes in online marketing, email strategy, social networking, mobile strategies and database management. A graduate of the California State University, Chico with a double major in Political Science and International Relations, Erin is a founding partner of Middle Coast.
Marisa is a communications specialist with a diverse professional background and more than ten years experience in political strategy, policy analysis, online communications, blog outreach, social networks and issue advocacy.
Marisa specializes in recognizing emerging trends in political organizing. In 2007 and 2008 she served as consultant and national communications strategist for the Campaign for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. In that role, Marisa was responsible for working with immigration groups nationwide on messaging, press events and online organizing. Marisa also serves as an advisor to political campaigns and advocacy organizations to devise strategies for using new media to communicate effectively in the digital age.
Marisa serves on the Washington, DC board of the New Leaders Council. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan.