Hilda is an award-winning public relations professional and journalist with over 15 years of experience in public relations, marketing communications, and crisis and issues management. She has been in the trenches of complicated public relations campaigns for a wide range of entities in the private, government, and non-profit sector.

Prior to joining Actum, Hilda served as Marketing/Communications Director for AARP California, Communications Director and spokesperson for Hillary for America in California, Public Affairs Manager for Southern California Edison, and West Region
Communications and Public Affairs Director for the Coca-Cola Company.

Prior to that, Hilda successfully led her own consulting firm, where she managed public affairs and media relations programs for a wide range of clients. She also served as Communications Director for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO and Press Deputy and spokesperson to former Los Angeles Mayor, James K. Hahn.

Hilda holds a B.A. in Journalism and Spanish Literature from Cal State University Northridge.

Campaigns and Elections calls Daniel Huey “one of the country’s rising stars and advisors in conservative politics.” The American Association of Political Consultants has named Huey to America’s “Forty Under Forty” list.

Huey has played an integral role at virtually every level of the Republican Party. Equally adept at strategy, data, and creative, Daniel helped guide Something Else* to seven statewide wins in his first cycle at the firm, and before that helped guide candidates, political organizations and corporations across the country in some of the country’s toughest races.

In 2016, Huey helped hold the Republican Senate Majority while serving as the NRSC Independent Expenditure Director and Senior Advisor, managing a $41 million budget and winning in battlegrounds, few gave Republicans a chance.

Previously in 2014, Huey served as the Deputy Director of the NRSC Independent Expenditure Unit. During his entire tenure at the NRSC, no Republican Senator lost a primary.

Huey worked at the Republican Governors Association in 2012 where he successfully helped defend all Republican incumbents and was part of the team that successfully defended Governor Scott Walker in the historic Wisconsin recall election.

A native of northern Georgia, Daniel went to George Washington University where he played soccer, got hurt, had fun, and lost his southern accent. Today he lives in Washington, DC with his wife where he periodically rides the bus and uses public transportation far more than any other Republican we know.

Chief Strategy Officer- Building Back Together

Mayra Macías is the Chief Strategy Officer at Building Back Together where she leads the political strategy and policy engagement for the organization which focuses on building support for the Biden-Harris Administration’s policy agenda.

For more than a decade, Mayra has been playing a key role shaping our national politics. She is a highly sought-after organizer, educator, and political operative, Mayra was named one of the American Association of Political Consultants’ top “2019 40 Under 40.” Mayra grew up in Chicago’s southside, in the working-class family of Mexican immigrant parents and went on to attend Yale University, where she majored in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration. After graduating, Mayra moved to Miami to work for Teach for America as a middle school Language Arts teacher in Liberty City at Charles R. Drew Middle School.

Prior to joining Building Back Together, Mayra was the Executive Director of the Latino Victory Project, serving as national political director and vice president before taking the helm of the organization. Mayra was the architect behind Latino Victory’s 74% win rate in the 2018 cycle — playing a critical role in electing the most diverse congressional class in history.

Mayra began her work in politics as a field organizer for the 2012 Obama campaign, working in the Little Havana office. After working in several issue-based campaigns, Mayra transitioned to the Florida Democratic Party, serving first as the Hispanic outreach director for South Florida and then as the deputy political director where she helped flip the Sarasota City Council. Mayra then transitioned from politics to policy by joining the Capitol Hill Fellowship, working for Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro, D-CT. Mayra returned to Florida the summer of 2016 and became the Florida Democratic Party’s political director — becoming the first Latina to hold this position.

Mayra’s media appearances include MSNBC, CNN, CNN en español, Telemundo, and Univision. She has been featured on The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Miami Herald, NBC News, Vox, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Politico, and The Hill. In 2020, Mayra was featured on the cover of the Yale Alumni Magazine as one of the Yale’s 50 Women in 150 Years, where she was profiled alongside other prominent alumna like Janet Yellen. Other awards include AT&T Humanity of Connection 2019 Awardee, Prospanica DC 40 under 40, 2017 #BossGirl Awardee. Mayra has served on the national board of Planned Parenthood Action Fund since 2020.

Political Director- Republican State Leadership Committee

Max Docksey is the Political Director for the Republican State Leadership Committee.

Born and raised in Northern Wisconsin, Docksey began his political career working with his hometown Congressman, Sean Duffy. Over the course of the last decade Docksey has held various political roles at the state and national level including as the Political Director for the Ohio Republican Party during the successful 2018 election cycle, as the National Paid Voter Contact Director for the Republican National Committee overseeing the largest paid voter contact budget in RNC history, and most recently as the Regional Political Director for the RNC managing the committee’s political operations in the Great Lakes region.

Docksey is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire and currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Cassie and his daughter Eliza.