At RJF Consulting, we believe that grassroots advocacy is the key to political success.
Getting buy-in from the grassroots and focusing their energy and passion requires more than lip service. We’ve been in the trenches connecting advocates to leaders and helping leaders connect to their constituents. We believe producing good policy starts at the bottom and works its way to the top.
We make that happen by working at all levels of government to ensure the right candidates win so they can implement good policies. Whether that means helping connect a school board candidate to the grassroots or helping a connect an advocacy group to elected officials who can advance their cause, we play to win.
Rob J. Fillion
Rob J. Fillion ran Ronald Reagan’s 1984 presidential campaign at his elementary school. Rob was 6, but helping Reagan win the hearts and minds of his fellow first graders created a lifelong passion.
Since then, Rob has run numerous campaigns and initiatives, defeating sales tax increases and helping Republican candidates run for offices from school board to Governor. He served as a legislative assistant to Congressman Scott McInnis, served as the designee for Sen. Jerry Moran on the state GOP Executive Committee, and served as the chief lobbyist for the Colorado Farm Bureau, where he championed grassroots efforts at the state and federal level to promote farming and ranching. At Americans for Prosperity-Kansas, he built a southwest AFP chapter and lobbied for free market ideals. Most recently, he served as a regional field director in Florida leading a team of petitioners to get an initiative on the ballot in the Sunshine State.
A former executive director for the Smoky Hill Development Corporation, he successfully mediated incentive packages for more than $35 million in construction for new and expanding businesses in rural Kansas, adding 300 new jobs to the local economy. He is a past president of western Kansas Rural Economic Development Alliance and a past vice-president of Kansas Economic Development Alliance.
Rob has also worked in international politics, working on a polling project in Antiqua.
Rob has bachelors degrees in political science and environmental studies from the University of Colorado-Boulder and a masters degree in politics and public policy from University of Colorado through the Best and Brightest program.
When he isn’t living out of a suitcase, he calls Topeka home.
Danedri Herbert
Danedri Herbert once won $50 for being the most average person, and she is featured in the 2012 book “The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation’s Most Ordinary Citizen.” Connecting everyday people with political leaders to create positive change is her passion.
A reformed journalist, Herbert’s work has appeared in newspapers across the country under her own byline. However, she’s placed and ghost written dozens of guest columns for everyone from soccer moms to former U.S. Senators. As a former writer for the Sentinel, an online, non-profit news organization owned by the Kansas Policy Institute, she reveled in holding government and media accountable. She is the co-author of “What Was Really the Matter with the Kansas Tax Plan – the Undoing of a Good Idea.”
Her engaging campaign emails and mail pieces successfully raised $90,000 during December of a non-election year. She served as a regional field director in Florida, leading a team of petitioners to put an initiative on the ballot in the Sunshine State. She is also experienced in international politics, most recently working on a polling project in Antigua.
She is a former flight attendant, a Kansas State University grad, and she currently serves as the communications director Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach.
She lives in an old house with a big front porch and a dog named Darla.
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