Meet Our Trainers

Ellie Heggerston is the Training Operations Specialist at Appian Corporation. Prior to working at Appian, Ellie was the Training and Digital Associate at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2018 Election Cycle. In her training position at the DCCC, Ellie trained over 15,000 Candidates, Managers, and Campaign Staffers in 25 cities across the country, meeting individuals in their communities to run local races. Ellie also developed a nationwide online training program to train over 9,000 operatives interested in learning campaign skills to get hired on local races. In her digital position at the DCCC, Ellie worked on 20 local congressional email programs and contributed to raising over 11.2 million grassroots dollars for those races. Ellie received her Bachelor of Science in Communication Arts with a Digital Studies Certificate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.