Kasey Suffredini is the incoming Chief Executive Officer & National Campaign Director at Freedom for All Americans.
Kasey is a nationally recognized campaign strategist with 20 years of experience in campaign and organizational management, policy development, strategic communications, and grassroots mobilization. Kasey has a track record of designing bipartisan campaigns that change narratives, pass legislation, win ballot measures, and drive momentum on seemingly intractable issues.
He currently serves as President of Strategy at Freedom for All Americans.
From 2016 to 2018, Kasey Suffredini co-chaired the historic, award-winning Freedom for All Massachusetts / Yes on 3 ballot campaign, winning the nation’s first statewide popular vote on transgender rights, and preserving transgender nondiscrimination protections in the state by a landslide two-thirds margin (68-32%). His previous roles include Acting CEO of Freedom for all Americans, Executive Director of MassEquality, Public Policy Director at Family Equality Council, and State Legislative Director at the National LGBTQ Task Force.
Kasey’s campaign leadership has resulted in over 100 policy reforms in nearly every U.S. state and at the federal level, including a number of other national firsts. These include partnering with the White House and federal Departments of Labor, State, and Education to make Family and Medical Leave, U.S. Passport, and FAFSA programs inclusive of same-sex couples, winning legislation to create the nation’s first statewide commissions on youth homelessness and LGBTQ aging, and driving a campaign for comprehensive statewide transgender nondiscrimination protections to victory in a Republican-controlled state for the first time.
Kasey is a sought after speaker and trainer on lessons from LGBTQ movement advocacy, and he is frequently quoted in TV, radio, podcast, and print outlets on political trends and LGBTQ issues. He has been honored for his advocacy by the New Leaders Council, the American Civil Liberties Union, Harvard Law School, and the National LGBT Bar Association.
Kasey received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. After two decades up and down the East Coast, he now resides in California with his wife, Kristina Bigdeli, and their pug, Tini.
