Zach Polett

Zach Polett

Zach Polett works as National Campaign Director of the Public Interest Network. In that role, he spends substantial time on Fair Share’s political campaigns, with a particular expertise in Florida. Prior to joining the Network he worked for 35 years as a community, labor, and political organizer. He started community organizing in Arkansas with ACORN in 1975; founded Louisiana ACORN in 1976; and then returned to Arkansas to direct Arkansas ACORN from 1980-1992. In 1985, he founded Local 100A of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a local union of low-wage health care and service workers that won the first homecare collective bargaining agreement in the South in 1988, before merging with SEIU Local 100. In 1992 he was appointed Director of Political Operations for ACORN and its associated organizations. From 1994-2008 he served as executive director of Project Vote, a non-partisan voter registration and participation organization that helped 1.1 million low-income and minority citizens register to vote in the 2004 election cycle.