Managing Director

Chris Conry is the Campaign Director of the 100% Campaign. He has been organizing in Minnesota since 2002. Most recently he was Strategic Campaigns Director at TakeAction Minnesota where we led their efforts to pass earned sick & safe time ordinances in three cities, to raise the state’s minimum wage, and to defeat statewide preemption.

Before that, he was a leader in campaigns to close corporate tax loopholes and expand access to healthcare in Minnesota. He worked in the labor movement for six years as a negotiator and organizer for the Service Employees International Union Local 284 and the United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 1189. He was trained as a community organizer by Voices for Racial Justice. He was the Volunteer Coordinator for Paul Wellstone’s 2002 Senate race. He has been periodically active in and regularly engaged by work in the performing & visual arts. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He is from Galva, Iowa.

Legislative & Political Director

Aurora Vautrin is the Political Director for the 100% Campaign. She started organizing in her home town of Duluth in 2010 and hasn’t stopped. Before coming to the campaign, Aurora worked at the Minnesota Youth Collective, as their Organizing Manager. Her time there was spent creating and running an Organizing Fellowship that was aimed at making politics more accessible to young, marginalized communities.

In 2019 she took a break from her position at MNYC to join the SD11 Special election. Prior to her political non-profit work, Aurora spent her time campaigning in every corner of Minnesota. She organized Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District in the 2016 Presidential Election and then spent a year and a half organizing for Erin Murphy’s 2018 Gubernatorial Campaign. Aurora graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College with degrees in Political Science and Women and Gender Sexuality Studies. Outside of work, Aurora has served on Women Winning’s LAUNCH Committee, organized with the League of Organizing Professionals, and volunteered for countless local campaigns.

Communications & Creative Director

Ashley Fairbanks is an Anishinaabe artist, organizer, designer and digital strategist, and the creative director for the 100% Campaign. She’s worked on everything from municipal to statewide electoral campaigns, most recently serving as Julian Castro Presidential Campaign as Creative Director, Ilhan Omar’s Digital Director and Erin Murphy’s Communications Director.

Ashley was a 2016 Forecast Public Art Emerging Artist Fellow, a 2016 Aspen Ideas Fellow, a 2017 Rockwood Institute Techquity Fellow, a 2022 Global Messaging Programme Fellow, and has completed numerous organizing trainings because she’s a pretty big nerd. She grew up in South Minneapolis, graduating from South High School and then the University of Minnesota, where she studied Ojibwe language and Political Science.

Founder, Future Builders Cooperative

Daniel Del Toro Vela is the founder of the Future Builders, an emerging worker owned cooperative for construction workers, focused on doing work in the fields of green construction and clean energy. Daniel has an entrepreneurship background with 20 years of experience in the service and maintenance industry.

During the pandemic, Daniel, like many other Latino immigrants, faced the brunt of the pandemic as a frontline worker and decided to switch gears and begin co-developing social entrepreneurship projects with other Latino and BIPOC workers in Minnesota. Daniel migrated to the USA as a child, soon after his mother died of Parkinson’s disease. As a young adult he became a longtime DREAMER and immigration justice leader. Daniel has formal education in the field of Solar and Renewable Energy from Century College and is a husband, father of 3, and grandparent with a new grandbaby of the way.