Sonia Van Meter is the Managing Partner of Stanford Campaigns, a national democratic opposition research and consulting firm based in Texas. Sonia has worked hundreds of hard-side campaigns and IEs all over the country, doing everything from city council bids to presidential campaigns. In 2014, she was made Managing Partner of Stanford Campaigns and began concentrating her efforts on recruiting and backing women candidates for office. She has worked alongside the DCCC, the DGA, EMILY’s List, Planned Parenthood, and other political committees as well as dozens of corporate and private clients in need of public records research.