• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • Meet Tim
    • Meet the Team
  • Platform
  • Organize & Volunteer
    • Students for Shepard
  • Press
Timothy Shepard for United States Senate

Timothy Shepard for United States Senate

Restore Democracy. Reform Capitalism. Invest In Our Future

  • Donate
You are here: Home / Meet Tim / Meet Our Amazing Team

Meet Our Amazing Team

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.’”

– Margaret Mead

Tim Miller (he/his) - 28 year old West Point Graduate, Army Veteran, Grassroots Organizer, and Political Activist.

Tim Miller (He/Him)

Senior Campaign Advisor for Veterans Affairs and Student Outreach Director

Miller is a West Point graduate, Veteran of two combat tours, political activist, and grassroots organizer. Above all, He is an experienced leader, focused on expanding equality, equity, and restoring the power of our representative democracy to the hands of ALL American people.

During his career, he deployed once as Aide-de-Camp to the Deputy Commanding General of Ground Forces in Iraq, and again as Communications Director for the Special Operations Task Force – Syria. Through these experiences, Miller began to understand what it meant to be an American at home and abroad.

    Irie Ewers - Senior Advisor to the Campaign for Timothy Shepard for United States Senate. Circular Design | Environmental Stewardship | Creative Content | (she/her)

    Irie Ewers (She/Her)

    Senior Campaign Advisor for Sustainable Jobs and Environmental Affairs.

    Irie is a Communication & Environmental Impact Manager with a knack for integrating systems thinking and product stewardship into organizational development. As a Human Impact Ecologist, She examines the relationship between our organizational processes, products, and the local environment – both built and natural. After evaluating impact, She helps engineer better product processes, interactions, and adaptations. Understanding the movement of materials and energy through ecosystems is just as important for organizations that similarly exist as complex and interconnected systems.

    Life’s Motto:

    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” 

      Drek Shepard

      Drek Shepard (He/Him)

      Senior Campaign Advisor for Communications and Husband to Tim Shepard

      Drek grew up in West Tennessee near the Missouri Bootheel. He followed in both his parent’s footsteps and he became an ordained minister. Drek is passionate about solving hunger here in America, he’s a co-founder of the Need to Feed initiative in Dallas which provides meals and health services to the homeless community.

      He became very active in the activist community during the Black Lives Matter movement’s rise. He is passionate about public service, determined to bring accountable leadership to help us return to representative democracy and to help heal our divisions as we lean in to loving each other.

        Jeremiah Toole

        Jeremiah Toole (He/Him)

        Senior Campaign Advisor for Grassroots Initiatives

        Jeremiah is the son of a pastor and a high school teacher who moved to Kearney, MO in the fifth grade. His new classmate, Tim Gaull (now Shepard), welcomed him, and they became fast friends. As they grew up, their faith and shared values kept them united. They longed to see their communities become more like the upside-down Kingdom Jesus described – a place where the last are first, where all people have value, and where none are in need. This led Jeremiah to follow a ministry path during the previous 14 years, where he’s specialized in team-building, leadership development, music, and technology. He’s glad to support his best friend’s campaign for the US Senate.

          Ajay Desai - Senior Campaign Advisor

          Ajay Desai (He/Him)

          Senior Campaign Advisor for Technology

          In the pursuit of entrepreneurship, Ajay started an IT business with a friend in high school, sold it, paid for college, and worked a full time/full course load at early cloud/telecom startups.   

          Ajay believes in our collective ability to git, fork, and commit to our future.  He has spent the last decade //building, influencing, auditing, and evangelizing democratized software innovation and entrepreneurship across Silicon Valley, Texas, America, and globally.  Ajay met Tim through the StartupBus network, where he has run 4 cohorts of graduating entrepreneurs and startup employees powering our future economies.

            Kaveh Eslampour near his apartment

            Kaveh Eslampour (He/Him)

            Senior Campaign Advisor Foreign Policy and Immigration

            Kaveh is the youngest son of an Iranian immigrant father and Irish-American mother. His experiences in the Middle East led him to a MA in International Relations from NYU, which instilled a deep love of the pacifying force of democracy.

            Kaveh works for an investment management and research firm. His work as a photographer was recently featured in New York Magazine’s Scenes From Your Pandemic Series. He proudly supports Tim’s campaign to redefine America’s indispensable role in the world championing democracy on his way to the U.S. Senate.

              Alley Springs Missouri

              Missouri’s Grassroots Platform to Win

              Restore Democracy, Reform Capitalism, and Invest in our Future.

              Read more

              We Need Your Help to Grow This Grassroots Campaign

              “My campaign is fueled by you. I’m not taking any corporate, dark, or PAC money because I believe we Democrats need to be the change we want to see. I need your help so that we can SHOW that it’s possible.”

              Tim Shepard

              If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:

              Express Donate $5
              Express Donate $10
              Express Donate $25
              Express Donate $100
              Donate A Different Amount

              Share our Grassroots Movement:

              • Twitter
              • Facebook
              • LinkedIn
              • Reddit
              • Email

              Footer

              Tim Shepard for United States Senate

              Stay in Touch

              • Facebook
              • Instagram
              • Twitter

              Paid for by Timothy Shepard Democrats, Mary Ruth Gaull, Treasurer

              Copyright © 2021 · Log in

              Use of military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform as well as appearance of logos and other photograph's of candidate and committee members from past experiences do not represent endorsement of the candidate or this campaign.

              Tim Shepard for United States Senate

              BECOME A FOUNDING GRASSROOTS DONOR

              “My campaign is fueled by you. I’m not taking any corporate, dark, or PAC money because I believe we Democrats need to be the change we want to see. I need your help so that we can SHOW the establishment that it’s possible.”

              Tim Shepard

              If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:

              EXPRESS $5
              EXPRESS $10
              EXPRESS $25
              EXPRESS $100
              DONATE ANOTHER AMOUNT
              loading Cancel
              Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
              Email check failed, please try again
              Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.