Democratic Political Operative and Strategist

Trevor Southerland

A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and graduate of Kennesaw State University, Trevor Southerland is a Democratic political operative and strategist who has worked with numerous campaigns, state parties, legislative caucuses, and labor unions.

In Pennsylvania, when national Democrats predicted double-digit losses in 2022, Southerland’s team instead flipped a net of twelve seats, delivering the first Democratic majority in more than a decade and paving the way for Joanna McClinton to become the first woman Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

In 2019, he developed the plan that gave Democrats their first majority in the Virginia House of Delegates in 20 years, gaining six seats and leading to the election of Eileen Filler-Corn as the chamber’s first woman and first Jewish Speaker in its over 400-year history.

Southerland’s background spans finance and fundraising, compliance, organizing, field, communications, and campaign management, with experience across the South, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic regions.

He now resides with his wife and kids in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where they serve as a foster family, specifically working with kids with autism, ADHD, trauma and other delays.