Vice President of Political and Digital Strategy
Tali deGroot returned to J Street in 2022 as the Ilya Braverman National Political Director. She was promoted to Vice President in July 2025, after leading a record-breaking 2024 cycle in which the organization bundled $15 million for JStreetPAC endorsees across the country. Tali previously worked at J Street from 2016 to 2019, holding multiple roles on the Capitol South Regional Team. Tali first encountered J Street as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — and it’s been her political home ever since.
Between her tenures at J Street, Tali played key roles in some of the most high-profile progressive campaigns in the country. In 2022, she served as Senior Advisor to Maxwell Frost in Florida’s 10th Congressional District, helping to elect the first Gen-Z Member of Congress. The year before, she led the fundraising effort as Finance Director for Nina Turner’s campaign in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District, raising $6.1 million in just seven months.
Tali also served as Director of Campaigns at Grassroots Analytics, where she helped hundreds of Democratic campaigns and advocacy organizations harness the power of data to turbocharge their fundraising. In the 2020 cycle, she managed the record-breaking grassroots fundraising program for Jessica Cisneros in Texas’ 28th Congressional District, raising $2.05 million in nine months with an average contribution of just $26 — a historic sum for a primary challenger.