Chris Golden

Vice President, Digital

Chris is a digital communications professional with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of politics, advocacy, and engagement. He has led digital mobilization, paid media, and influencer campaigns for some of the largest public policy challenges at both the federal and state levels. Most recently, Chris was Director, Digital Grassroots Mobilization on the government affairs and communications team at Crypto.com where he was responsible for designing a program to convert the company’s app users into policy advocates. 

Hina Razzaq

Vice President, Digital

Hina is a digital marketing specialist with a passion for growing action-driven campaigns through digital tools. Before joining Rational 360, Hina worked as a Senior Digital Strategist at Revolution Messaging, balancing creative marketing with data that drives results for her clients. During this time Hina led projects for her various non-profit clients that were awarded multiple Pollie and Reed awards. Prior to that, she served as the Digital Lead in Wisconsin for the 2016 Presidential Election, where she utilized digital platforms to boost traditional canvassing methods, resulting in a double-digit increase in volunteer recruitment.

Bryce Ballard

Senior Director, Social Listening

Bryce Ballard specializes in how social listening, media intelligence, and other open-source research can inform digital strategy, public affairs, and communications. Bryce has diverse experience working across agencies, in-house teams, and technology vendors to deploy social listening programs and AI-backed measurement frameworks that empower clients to orient themselves in the online ecosystem and extract insights. Bryce is intentional about leading new projects with curiosity by seeking to pioneer novel research methodologies, upskilling analytical rigor of unstructured datasets, and figuring out how digital strategy can play a role in shifting a conversation’s narrative.

Khadija Butt

Director

Khadija Butt is a public relations professional with experience in written communications and traditional and digital media. She graduated from American University with a double major in Political Science and Spanish Studies with an undergraduate certificate of Spanish and English translation. During her undergraduate career, she held internships at CLS Strategies, where she focused on supporting various corporate and international clients facing litigation or reputational issues, and BluShark Digital, where she assisted in the management of several ad campaigns and created Google Analytics reports.