Amelia Adams Media Strategist, Partner

When you’re raised in the union hall like Amelia Adams, you learn early on about how politics is personal and an absolutely vital arena to master if you want to win equities and help people on the margins.

Amelia has used these lessons in the brass-knuckles world of New York politics as an organizer, a policy expert and a top strategist for such candidates as Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Bill De Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, and such campaigns as the Fight for $15.

She’s also used her own experiences and using the lens of an organizer to become a champion for electing women and people of color to office-and fighting back against the many double standards to which they’re held.

Raised in Washington Heights in New York to a token booth clerk and a school safety officer, Amelia was a star student and athlete (and a standout rugby player in college and beyond), first choosing a career in finance before a Barack Obama speech inspired her to join up with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

There, and at New York Communities for Change (NYCC), she organized buildings and schools-and was present at the creation of the historic national effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 for fast-food workers. Amelia also saw that power for greater change flowed through politics, beginning her rapid rise with Speaker Mark-Viverito and serving as De Blasio’s political director in 2017.

As treasurer of 21 in ‘21, she was part of the successful effort to increase the number of women on the New York City Council-with that number now standing at 31.

Amelia ran her own firm, Adams Advisors LLC, before joining The Win Company as a partner in 2021. Her clients have included Rep. Mondaire Jones, Maryland Gov. candidate Wes Moore, and Emily’s List.

She is a scholarship graduate of Babson College and lives in Brooklyn with her rescue cats, Rocket and Pilot.

Rania Batrice Media Strategist, Partner

Rania Batrice--a dual Israeli citizen with Palestinian emigre parents--is a top Democratic operative with over two decades of experience who has risen to the top of American progressive politics with a combination of dogged perseverance and clear-eyed savvy on how to win victories for those on the margins.

She has been known not just for the humanity to which she brings to the work-but also her emphasis on organization on getting things done.

Rania was Deputy Campaign Manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential run and managed other major surrogates and Sanders appearances on behalf of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. She’s managed and won key federal and statewide campaigns. As head of her own consulting firm, Batrice and Associates, she has helped develop strategy for a wide portfolio of organizations, including the Arab American Institute, March for Our Lives, March For Science, Sunrise Movement, Human Rights Watch and others.

Raised partly in Nazareth en route to Lubbock, Tex., Rania broke from a traditional upbringing with her pursuit of sports and activism. Starting in grade school (and not always with the support of a conservative family), Rania ended up playing basketball on A.A.U. teams that played in the nationals and played three years as a power forward at Austin College (Tex.) It was also there that she became more active in social justice movements and organizing.

After a stint teaching and coaching young people in the justice system in Travis County, Tex., Rania was called back to electoral politics, joining John Edwards’ presidential campaign. The years that followed included time as the executive director for the Innocence Project of Texas and work on the campaigns of Kinky Friedman, Heidi Heitkamp, former President Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and others.

Her civil society work has taken Rania overseas, to Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, the West Bank, the UK where she champions women’s rights, LGBTQ rights climate action, poverty and more.

Rania lives in Texas, and counts the Midwest, especially Michigan, as her second home.

Rosy Gonzalez Speers Media Consultant, Partner

It’s one thing to have great ideas for a campaign. It’s quite another to bring them to life. A political and communications strategist, she has been doing both--converting and operationalizing strategy into precision political victory for over a decade at the highest levels of Democratic politics.

Whether it’s managing multi-million dollar media budgets for the Florida Democratic Party to managing the national surrogacy of Massachusetts' first Black governor to helping manage crucial ad campaigns for an underdog Black Congresswoman from Illinois, Rosy has used her skills of organization to deftly navigate systems that oftentimes resist change. But she’s used to fighting for and winning a seat at the table.

Raised in the Bronx to working-class Dominican parents, she moved in middle school to tiny Somersworth, New Hampshire, and was raised with her two sisters by their single mother. It was there she got her first real taste of maneuvering within different cultures and of politics, winning a write-in campaign for class president.

Rosy’s appetite and acumen for politics grew while at Simmons College in Boston, where she organized and worked for a string of Democratic candidates at the state and local level, ultimately serving as finance director for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, and in a variety of senior roles for Gov. Deval Patrick.

Rosy, is a first-generation American from the Dominican Republic. She is a graduate of Simmons College and she attended the Arabic Language Institute in Cairo. She lives in Miami, with her husband, Chris, sons Mateo and Lucas, and dog Enzo.

Devin Gosnell Media Strategist

Devin brings a decade of political experience in the South and Northeast to the team. He was born and raised in South Carolina and attended college in Tennessee. Yet, luck and a love of adventure took him to Philadelphia where he worked in Mayor Michael Nutter’s Office. He then transitioned to managing campaigns at all levels, winning elections with (now) Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5), Charleston, SC Mayor John Tecklenburg, and Delaware County Councilwoman Elaine Paul Schaefer (PA), to name a few. Since managing campaigns, Devin was the Senior Strategist at a national Democratic media firm where he worked on campaigns in 12 states.

Outside of work, Devin is probably walking his dog, Rojo the Redbone Coonhound, exercising, and trying to get a little better personally and professionally every day.

Bill Hyers Managing Director, Partner

Bill Hyers, recognized nationally as an expert on political campaigns, is a managing and founding partner of The Win Company.

For more than two decades, Bill has worked on scores of local, state and national campaigns at every level and across geographies, from Alaska to Bermuda, from Kentucky to New York.

Bill, who began consulting in 2014, has held senior roles on multiple Presidential campaigns and has served as manager or general consultant in several races that resulted in stunning upsets, including Michael Nutter’s win as Philadelphia mayor, Bill de Blasio’s win for New York mayor, Steve Beshear’s win as Kentucky governor, and Obama's presidential campaigns.

He is a three-time finalist for the American Association of Political Consultants’ “Campaign Manager of the Year” award, winning in 2013.

Bill started in politics in Minnesota, inspired to the path of populist political disruption by Paul Wellstone, on whose final Senate campaign he worked. He has been lead consultant for John Fetterman (Senate campaign and Lt. Gov race); AOC for Congress; and Lucas Kunce for Senate, among many others.

Bill is a 2001 graduate of St. Cloud State University. Before entering politics, he joined the U.S. Army, serving all over the world. He served as President Obama’s first White House Liaison to the Department of Veterans Affairs.