Matt Goldfine has spent his career cultivating leadership, managing campaigns, and advocating for progressive policy. He has extensive experience building and maintaining diverse coalitions across governments, non-profits, labor, businesses, academia, and the general public to develop successful solutions to complex problems. From crafting national policy to knocking doors in his neighborhood, Matt believes collaboration is the key to all social progress.

Elected officials that Matt has worked for, advised, recruited to run, and trained include: State Rep. Tim Briggs, State Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler, State Rep. Paul Friel, Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, State Rep. Nancy Guenst, Senate Senator Vincent Hughes, State Rep. Tarik Khan, State Rep. Rick Krajewski, State Rep. Leanne Krueger, Democratic Leader State Rep. Joanna McClinton, County Commisioner Marian Moskowitz, and Former State Rep. Brian Sims.

Most recently, Matt served as the Managing Director of the Workplace Justice Lab, a multi-institutional organization anchored at Rutgers University with outposts at Northwestern University, the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California, and the UC Berkeley Labor Center. He oversaw day-to-day operations of the nation's leading labor academic research center for innovations in government and grassroots organizations strengthening labor standards enforcement and base building.

In Pennsylvania, Matt was the founding Executive Director of LEAD PA (501c4) and LEAD PA Institute (501c3), where he built programs and partnerships to cultivate a new generation of progressive leaders. He and the LEAD team built six training programs across two organizations, and trained over 300 Pennsylvanians including potential candidates for public office, candidate and issue advocacy campaign staff, local leadership scouts, and prepared Black and Brown staffers for executive roles to address systemic underrepresentation in advocacy organizations.

Prior to LEAD PA, Matt served as the Director of Government Relations and Public Grants at the University City Science Center. At the Science Center he raised funding from all levels of government, managed lobbying and policy engagement efforts to support academic research and technology commercialization, and led the effort to develop the organization's first workforce development program. He drafted grants proposals and reviewed contracts for the U.S. EDA, NSF, NIH, SBA, and NEA; Pennsylvania RACP, DCED, and DOH; Philadelphia Dept. of Commerce and PIDC.

Matt first worked right out of college as an activist and organizer in North Philadelphia communities, and then on local candidate campaigns. He then served as Chief of Staff to a member of the PA House, where he worked to increase public school funding, address gun violence, protect the environment and promote sustainable practices, ensure gender equity in youth sports, and for non-discrimination protections to include LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians. He moved on to state politics where he managed the campaign to elect PA’s first openly LGBTQ+ legislator and recruited the first majority female slate of challengers. At home in Philadelphia, he has advised many candidates who have gone on to become the new generation of the city's leadership.

Matt is a graduate of Temple University and a lifelong member of the John Chaney fan club. He lives in West Philadelphia with his partner and their precocious kid.