Perpetrator No. 4
Cristina Sinclaire -
Director/ Secretary @ Center for
Tech and Civic Life
Cristina Sinclaire is a Director as well as Secretary for the Center for Tech and Civic Life. Cristina is currently Senior Vice President at Clarity Campaign Labs in Washington, DC. Before joining Clarity, she served as Director of Client Services at Catalist, providing data and data services to over 200 progressive organizations. Prior to that she researched voting laws and built civic data tools at the New Organizing Institute.”
Clarity campaigns launched in 2012. “Since our founding, we have worked to put our values into practice both in our commitment to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace culture and in contributing to campaigns and projects that advance progressive causes.”
Sinclaire works directly with data to drive campaign outcomes specifically for liberal progressive candidates. She’s also a board member at CTCL whose grants specifically targeted progressive areas under the guise of vote by mail and get out the vote nonpartisan movements. Sinclair’s work with civic data engagement would have been particularly useful in the planning of said grants.
Furthermore, the work that Sinclaire has done is blatantly partisan and raises a number of red-flags when considering she was one of the individuals ultimately deciding where and to which demographics millions of Zuckbucks would go. The current and past clients of clarity campaigns, include some of the biggest names in left-wing progressivism.
Exhibit No. 4->
In May of 2019, Sinclaire spoke with the Great Battlefield podcast in an episode titled “Helping Progressives with Data and Analytics”. During her 45 minute long segment she not only voices her disdain for Trump but admits that the CTCL uses the same civic data engagement and in fact originated from her and Tiana Epps-Johnson’s previous work:
-At 3 minutes’ Sinclaire says “I thought Bush would be worst president ever but was obviously wrong hahaha [in fact President Trump was].”
-At 10 minutes she discusses the NOI (New Organizing Institute) and her team: “one of the issues with NOI was we were trying to do so many different things, for example my election administration team was working with election officials and google and facebook….my team split off to become the CTCL with my former boss, Tiana Epps-Johnson, she’s fantastic, she's an Obama fellow, so they are continuing that work of civic data work as well as organizing election officials to bring them resources and technology help.”
Sinclair uses data analytics to predict which demographic audiences would be most susceptible to republican campaigns. This in turn allows a campaign to preemptively strike in those areas to prevent the voters from being swayed to by their opposition.
This sort of analysis would’ve been integral to CTCL’s grant planning and organizing elections. Additionally, Sinclaire’s admission of the CTCLorigins raises serious questions given the unique state of the 2020 election due to COVID-19. For example, could early voting by mail have been weaponized to get a battleground area’s votes in before one candidate can message them?
The implications are dangerous. Regardless, the CTCL’s claim to non-partisanship continues to hold little to no water at all. Especially with left wing progressive campaigners like Sinclaire on their board. Why wouldn’t she use her Obama Fellowship civic data training to reclaim her female reproductive rights and remove the man who is clearly not her president?
