With more than ten years of experience and expertise in fundraising, Casey Ryan founded Ryan Blueprint Group, a firm specializing in innovative development strategies. He was inspired to get into politics after attending a labor rally in Youngstown, Ohio, for Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign. What the Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, native didn’t know was that his interest would eventually lead to working for New York governors.

Ryan graduated in 2012 from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and moved to Washington, D.C., where he entered the world of political fundraising, working with Berger Hirschberg Strategies. In 2015, he relocated to New York to become deputy finance director for then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Though Ryan left that job after nearly three years to work as finance director for Rushern Baker, a candidate for governor in Maryland, he eventually came full circle working as a major gifts officer for the Human Rights Campaign.

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