Hillary Lehr

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Hillary Lehr

Hillary Lehr
Principal
Higher Ground Labs
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Hillary specializes in rapid scale at civic tech startups, political tech investment firms, nonprofits and top campaigns. At Higher Ground Labs, Hillary manages the firm's portfolio and accelerator programs: coaching startup founders, convening high profile strategic roundtables, and co-launching innovative first-time programs including AllHands, a technical talent recruitment partnership, and Uptime 2020, an important security, bug bounty, & technology reliability program. Prior to Higher Ground Labs, Hillary led Client Success at Hustle from 2016-2018. Previously, Hillary managed client partnerships and user research initiatives at Brigade and Causes.com. Hillary's career began in environmental and human rights organizations where she got her start digitalizing nonprofit campaign work during the rise of CRMs, viral petitions, and early social media platforms at Global Exchange and Rainforest Action Network.