qjames25@nul.org

Quentin James is the founder and president of The  Collective PAC, the nation’s largest political action committee dedicated to recruiting, training, funding, and supporting Black candidates to run for office. Since 2016, The Collective PAC and its five affiliate entities have helped elect over 500 Black candidates to public office by raising, bundling, and spending over $50 million, training over 2,000 candidates and campaign operatives, and registering over 250,000 voters. Previously, Quentin served as the African American outreach director for the Ready for Hillary Super PAC and as national director for the Sierra Club’s Student Coalition, the nation’s largest youth environmental organization. More recently,  Quentin founded Inclusv, a national diversity hiring initiative, and Vestige Strategies, one of the nation’s top civic and community engagement consulting firms.