Mandy Vlasz

Mandy serves as BISC’s Director of Operations. Her primary responsibilities are to manage the organization’s operations – including finance and fundraising, as well as providing administrative, scheduling and project assistance to the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director.

Before joining BISC, Mandy worked in a variety of campaign and political consulting environments, beginning with the 2000 Gore/Lieberman campaign, for which she worked in the finance department of the national headquarters. She has also worked for Democratic polling firm Lake Research Partners and on the U.S. Senate campaign of Gery Chico of Illinois in 2004. Most recently, she served as Director of Operations for Media Matters for America.  

Mandy is an Illinois native and holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Bradley University.  She lives in Arlington with her husband Jonathan and her son James.