About Blueline
Our story
Solving the talent retention problem is personal. Before business school, Blueline’s Founder Lorenza Ramirez spent five years managing voter turnout programs on Presidential and Senate campaigns in battleground states. She witnessed both sides of the talent pipeline problem: countless talented operatives leaving the industry because there is no scalable infrastructure to retain them between cycles, and the enormous financial and efficiency costs of this attrition for progressive causes in the subsequent election year.
She pivoted to business school to do something about it. Blueline received special recognition as a finalist in the UChicago Social New Venture Accelerator in 2024, incorporated that summer, and officially launched in September 2024 at a kick-off with Beto O’Rourke. In June 2025, Blueline received a grant from Vote Save America’s Political Innovation Fund for our work retaining campaign talent.
Our advisors
I know how serious the talent retention problem is, and how urgently we need to solve it. This organization fills a clear gap in the ecosystem, and I believe Blueline has enormous potential to improve our talent pipeline.
US Senator
Heidi Heitkamp
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Former President, NGP VAN
Amanda Coulombe
Blueline stands out as a more effective alternative to traditional recruiters. Blueline’s innovative approach not only offers Blueline Fellows a pathway to long-term political careers, but also provides employers with access to a mission-driven talent pool, creating a sustainable solution for both sides
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Blueline ensures we have stability in the personnel who are the reason campaigns can be run and ultimately won. Not having to go through that start-up process and hunt talent would have saved us so much time and so much money. And on the positive, would have given us folks who were ready on Day 1 to run and win big campaigns.
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Beto O’Rourke
Former Congressman
