Stephanie Ong Stillman

Stephanie has extensive experience in campaign strategy, communications, grassroots organizing and media relations for political campaigns and non-profit organizations. She has led successful municipal and issue-based campaigns for Hope Road Consulting and is personally involved in every aspect of each project.

Prior to forming Hope Road Consulting, LLC, Stephanie was the Project Manager for Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth where she managed issue advocacy campaigns on childcare, youth opportunities, and education. She was the Campaign Manager for Proposition D - the Children's Fund Campaign and was a Communications Consultant for several nonprofit organizations.

Stephanie currently serves as Secretary of the the Board of Directors of Chinese for Affirmative Action/Center for Asian American Advocacy, an organization with a long history of advocacy on behalf of the Asian Pacific Islander community. She serves as Treasurer of Coleman Action Fund, a political voice for working families in San Francisco. Stephanie is actively involved with Emerge California, a political leadership training program for Democratic women. She is one of the founders of PowerPAC.org, an organization building a social justice political agenda for California.

She previously served on the Board of Directors for Asian Perinatal Advocates and the Coalition for Ethical Welfare Reform and was a Discovery Leadership Fellow for the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute.

Stephanie's commitment to engaging disenfranchised communities in the political process is rooted in her own immigration experience from the Philippines at the age of nine. Her family's struggle to overcome cultural challenges is what fuels her drive to create effective communication strategies relevant to California's emerging communities.

Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University.

Stephanie and her husband Chris Stillman are big on traveling and list Brazil, Jamaica, Cuba, and Thailand among their favorites. They live in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco with their dog Bootsy.

Johanna Silva Waki

Johanna brings many years of experience in developing political strategy, organizing grassroots campaigns, media relations, organizational development and government affairs. She has led many of Hope Road's major projects and is extensively engaged in the development of direct mail, messaging and communications.

Prior to Hope Road, Johanna was a Special Assistant to San Francisco's Superintendent of Schools where she worked closely with parents and teachers, led coalitions, and managed the School District's Bilingual Education Task Force, which set the implementation policy for bilingual education in San Francisco public schools.

She was a key advisor to the US Census Bureau's 2000 Complete Count Committee where she created and implemented the Northern California Migrant Outreach Plan. As a field representative for a State Assemblyman, Johanna worked with community members on a wide range of community issues and legislative agendas.

Johanna was the Bay Area Field Director for the No on Prop 38 campaign where she led a coalition of educators, parents, and community members to successfully defeat the movement for school vouchers.

Johanna's drive to politically engage disenfranchised communities is rooted in her family's immigration experience. At the age of six, Johanna's family moved to San Francisco from Nicaragua. She is grateful to local community organizations that helped her family overcome cultural and language barriers and for cementing the importance of community engagement.

Johanna currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors for the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, and sits on KQED's Community Advisory Panel. She is a former member of the Board of Directors for Emerge California, a political leadership training program for Democratic women and is Chair of Emerge California's Campaign Advisory Team. She is one of the founders of PowerPAC.org, an organization building a social justice political agenda for California and serves on the Advisory Board of the San Francisco Women's Political Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and La Raza Studies from San Francisco State University.

Johanna lives in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood with her husband, Yukiya Jerry Waki, and their Shih Tzu, Leo.