Meet the team

The team that keeps the work moving.

Sapphire brings together organizers, fundraisers, strategists, and builders who know campaigns need judgment, trust, and practical infrastructure when the pressure is real.

Chloe Ray

Managing Partner

Chloé Ray

Chloé leads client strategy, execution, staff coordination, and communications with the practical judgment of a rural Missouri organizer and campaign operator.

She brings training, coalition, and leadership experience to the work, helping campaigns turn pressure into decisions people can actually execute.

  • NWPC Secretary
  • MOWPC VP, Education & Training
  • Nationally certified trainer
  • SEMO Civic and Global Engagement Award
Clayton Herbst

Clayton Herbst

Founding Partner

Clayton brings strategy, data, systems, and campaign infrastructure experience to teams that need sharper decisions and cleaner execution.

  • Missouri Times 30 Under 30
  • Missouri Young Democrat of the Year
Beth Newman

Beth Newman

St. Louis Division Director

Beth helps campaigns turn volunteers, turf, turnout goals, and local relationships into work that can be organized, tracked, and repeated.

Rogelio Rodriguez

Rogelio Rodriguez

Kansas City Division Director

Rogelio builds community and field capacity across Kansas City, helping campaigns turn local trust into direct voter contact and organized action.

  • Missouri Young Democrats CD5 Representative
  • UMKC Dean's List
Autumn Herbst

Autumn Herbst

Fundraising Director

Autumn helps campaigns turn lists into calls, calls into follow-up, and follow-up into the money needed to keep the program moving.

How we work

Built for the pace of campaigns.

Sapphire pairs campaign judgment with practical systems: better lists, better follow-up, better voter contact, better monitoring, and clearer accountability.