LNC Staff

LNC Staff refers to personnel responsible for national Libertarian Party business who are not themselves members of the LNC. They may be employees or contractors, and may do their work in the national headquarters, at some other fixed location, or in the field (e.g., affiliate support, ballot access projects).

The way that these personnel are organized has varied over the years. Generally there has been one person, with a title like "National Director" or "Executive Director", who has hiring and supervisory authority over all or most of the rest of the staff. But at various times specific functions have been performed by staff who report directly to the national Chair or to an LNC subcommittee.

Note that although these people are collectively referred to as LNC Staff, and they have usually provided some support for the LNC's function as a committee (e.g., arranging for a meeting location, copying/distributing reports) most of their work is not of this nature.

Current Staff

Position	Officeholder	Took office	List
Executive Director	Wes Benedict	2013	List
Political Director	Carla Howell		List
Operations Director	Robert Kraus	Before Jan. 2008
Assistant Editor	Elizabeth Brierly
Candidate and Affiliate Support Specialist	Bob Johnston
State Affiliate Development Specialist	Andy Burns
Special Projects	Nick Dunbar
Head of Development	Lauren Daugherty
Designer	Denise Luckey
Development Coordinator	Jess Mears
Membership Renewals	Matthew Thexton
Special Projects	Burly Cain

Former Staff

Louise Calise, Development
Edward Wilson, Special Projects

Other

Media & Development

These roles took on different titles and jobs were merged from time to time.

Media Coordinator

• Andrew Davis (Jan. 2008 - Jul. 2008)

Communications Director

• Andrew Davis (Aug. 2008 - Dec. 2008)
• Donny Ferguson (Feb. 2009)

Affiliate Services & New Media

• Mark Meranta (Sept. 2009 - Mar. 2010)

Development Assistant

• Kyle Hartz (Mar. 2010)

Development & New Media Assistant

• Kyle Hartz (May 2010 - Jan. 2011)

Other Roles

Direct Mail Manager

• Louise Calise (Jan. 2008 - Sept. 2009)

Volunteer Coordinator

• Elisabeth Brooks (Jan. 2008)
• Austin Petersen (Feb. 2008 - Feb. 2009; left role before Sept. 2009)

Member Services Specialist

• Susan Dickson (Jan. 2008 - Apr. 2011)
• Alexa Lamoureux (Jan. 2008 - July 2008)
• Casey N. Hansen (Sept. 2008 - Dec. 2011)
• Kelly Dirkes (Jul. 2011 - Dec. 2011)

Affiliate Relations Manager

• Casey N. Hansen (Mar. 2010 - Dec. 2011)

Staff Assistant

• Arthur DiBianca (Sept. 2009 - Dec. 2011)
• Nick Dunbar (Mar. 2010)

Special Projects

• Nick Dunbar (May 2010 - Dec. 2011)

Candidate and Affiliate Support Specialist

• Bob Johnston (Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2011)

Video Productions

• Nigel Lyons (Apr. 2011 - Dec. 2011)