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Directors & Advisors

Board of Directors

For Blue Horizon Texas

Coda Rayo-Garza, MA

President

Coda is a former candidate for Texas State House in Bexar County. She is working on her PhD in Demography and currently works as the Director of Research and Data for Every Texan.

Kathy Cheng, JD

Secretary

Kathy was a 2018 and 2020 Democratic nominee for Texas Supreme Court. She's a legal practitioner from the Greater Houston area and is committed to assisting qualified, passionate rural county candidates.

Jennifer Cantú, MD

Director

Jennifer was a 2020 Democratic nominee for Fort Bend County Commissioner and 2018 nominee for Texas State House. She is a medical social worker and general family practitioner and is active in several civic and political groups.

Madi Eden

Director

Madi was a 2020 and 2022 Democratic nominee for Texas House in Bastrop and ran for U.S. Congress in 2018. She co-founded Register2Vote and Civitech, has chaired the Bastrop County Stonewall Democrats, and is a former Democratic precinct chair.

Samantha Fields

Director

Samantha was a 2018 Democratic nominee for Texas State House in Lubbock. She currently serves as a Campaign Organizing Specialist for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.

FJ Jones, MEd

Director

FJ was a 2020 Democratic nominee for Justice of the Peace in Brazoria County. She currently works as an Educational Diagnostician in Houston ISD and chairs the Brazoria County Chapter of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats.

Clayton Tucker

Director

Clayton was a 2020 Democratic nominee for Texas State Senate. He serves as the Lampasas County Democratic Party Chair and

Deputy Finance Director for the Texas Young Dems.

Josh Tutt

Director

Josh was a 2022 Democratic nominee for Texas State Senate. He currently serves as Board President of the Brazos Valley Pride Community Center.

Mary Wilson, DMin

Director

Mary is a former Congressional candidate in Central Texas (Hill Country, Austin, San Antonio). She is a retired pastor, former math teacher, and current Director of the LGBTQI+ nonprofit, ChrysalisQ.org.

Mary Wilson, DMin

Director

Directors, Blue Horizon Texas

Directors, Blue Horizon Action

Board of Directors

For Blue Horizon Action Fund

Bruce Carpenter

President

Bruce is a Co-Founder and Principal of Harbour Bridge Ventures, with over fifty years of executive management, entrepreneurial, and nonprofit leadership experience. Bruce is a lifelong progressive Democrat and Social Justice activist.

Coda Rayo-Garza

Secretary

Coda is a former candidate for Texas State House in Bexar County. She currently works as the currently works as Director of Research and Data for Every Texan and serves on several boards and commissions.

Steven Kling

Treasurer

Steve was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Texas Senate District 25. A decorated combat veteran, he currently works as Principal Cloud Architect for Appfire.

Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board consists of a broad range of leaders in the Texas Democratic coalition. They have deep experience and knowledge of the existing Democratic Party and progressive infrastructure as elected officials and candidates, campaign staffers, grassroots organizers, and leaders of party organizations and allied groups. Representing the diversity of their communities, they help identify existing problems and gaps and propose potential solutions for candidates running in red and underinvested districts across the state.