HeadCount Taps Lucille Wenegieme As New Executive Director
Co-founder Andy Bernstein will stay on as Senior Advisor.
By Nate Todd Sep 14, 2023 • 12:48 pm PDT
Music-focused voting organization HeadCount announced Lucille Wenegieme as its new Executive Director. The 32-year old election official and voting rights advocate is taking over for HeadCount co-founder Andy Bernstein who is stepping back from day-to-day operations but will “maintain an integral role as a senior advisor,” as per a press release.
Wenegieme previously worked on the executive team at Denver’s Clerk & Recorder Office — responsible for city-wide elections — where she ran point on “a citizen-led campaign finance system” and pioneered “a groundbreaking marijuana-themed get-out-the-vote initiative.” Additionally, Wenegieme served as Vice President of Communications at the National Vote at Home Institute and headed up her own communications firm.
“The world is changing and the next election won’t be decided by the traditional political apparatus,” Wenegieme said in a statement. “Millenials and Gen Z now make up nearly half of eligible voters, and we can’t be reached through traditional media buys and direct mail. We respond to authentic messages from trusted messengers, and that’s where HeadCount has always been a leader.”
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Bernstein — who co-founded HeadCount with The Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein in 2004 — also weighed in on HeadCount and its new Executive Director:
“When we started this organization 20 years ago, I was young, fired up and determined to change the world. I’m still two of those things, and while I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished, I’m also unbelievably excited to see what HeadCount can do under fresh and visionary new leadership. Lucille is a rising star and she represents all the promise of the generation we aim to mobilize.”
Wenegieme is set to make her first public appearance with HeadCount on September 24 at the upcoming American Democracy Summit in Los Angeles. HeadCount also has a busy fall planned with voter registration drives at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival in New Jersey, Music Midtown in Atlanta and the Global Citizen Festival in New York. HeadCount is currently touring with Noah Kahan, Odesza, Pentatonix, The Lumineers, The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie, All Time Low, the Disco Biscuits, CAKE and Noah Cyrus.
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