Katya Ehresman
2025-2026 Obama Foundation USA Leader

Senior Principal, Blue Victory LLC
Austin, Texas
Katya Ehresman is the senior principal at Blue Victory LLC, a Texas-based political consulting firm. She is the former executive director at the Texas House Democratic Caucus, where she united legislators around strategic messaging and collective action to address the challenges facing Texans. Katya has developed successful multimedia campaigns to promote public education via multiple media platforms across her state. Previously, at Common Cause Texas, she developed the state’s first Voting Rights Program and led a bipartisan coalition of over 200 organizations to pass pro-voter bills and mobilize Texans against voter suppression. Katya is committed to strengthening representative democracy and civic participation for the government to respond to citizen needs in Texas.
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