Amy Gooden

Partner

Amy is a partner and ad-maker at TKO and a seasoned political veteran with twenty years' experience winning hard-fought campaigns up and down the ballot.

In addition to electoral, communications, and media strategy, Amy’s expertise includes preparing for and managing political crisis incidents, leading rapid response teams that specialize in mobilizing and distributing information quickly, and debate and speech preparation. Amy has also counseled corporate and nonprofit executives on strategic communications, public affairs, and political risk assessment.

Previously, Amy was a partner at Left Hook and worked at A|L Media. Amy served as Research Director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2010 and 2012 cycles, helping the Committee defy expectations in back-to-back cycles by protecting the Senate majority and picking up seats, worked at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and cut her teeth on a competitive U.S. Senate race.

A graduate of Vanderbilt University and recovering Washingtonian, Amy lives in her native Chicago with her daughter Birdie (human) and Zadie (feline).