Ben Gardner is All Voting is Local’s Michigan senior campaign manager.

Prior to joining the organization, Gardner spent nearly a decade working as an organizer, field director and campaign manager on several congressional and issue advocacy campaigns in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and New York.

Ben Gardner joined All Voting Is Local as Michigan Senior Campaign Manager in Spring of 2020. He proudly works in coalition with other nonpartisan voting rights advocates on a wide array of election protection, clerk engagement, voter engagement and countering election sabotage projects throughout Michigan. In his spare time, he enjoys seeing live music and singing with Rackham Choir and Measure for Measure.

Gardner is a graduate of Michigan State University, holding a bachelor’s degree in comparative cultures and politics from MSU’s James Madison College of Public Affairs.