The Auxiliary has brought together over 150 of the country's best digital and guerrilla marketers, medical professionals, and disinformation experts on a mission to fight for truth in the age of the virus.
FOUNDERS
Imran Hafiz
Before he had graduated high school, Hafiz co-authored The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook and won the Arizona Martin Luther King, Jr. Living the Dream Award for activism. He made documentaries at VICE informed by his Duke University public policy training, including the Emmy-award winning VICE on HBO episode that sent Dennis Rodman to North Korea. He introduced Bernie Sanders to Killer Mike while pitching a show for VICELAND. He has made millions of dollars for Fortune 500 companies as a creative, strategist, and publisher for VICE Media’s ad agency, VIRTUE.
Beckett Mufson
Mufson was a top-trafficked reporter at VICE, covering internet culture and transmedia for five years. You can find his byline on Intel’s The Creators Project, VICE, iHeart Radio, and WeedMaps News. His writing has been translated into 12 languages. He later worked on campaigns for top entertainment brands like HBO, Showtime, and Facebook Watch. He helped Hafiz start The Auxiliary while on sabbatical from Sean Parker’s video chat app company, Airtime.


Dylan Enright
Enright is a founder, angel investor, and political junkie with a passion for novel ideas. He has worked in startups leading growth and product at companies like YC backed Wefunder - the pioneer and market leader of investment crowdfunding and Biobot Analytics - an MIT company transforming wastewater infrastructure into public health observatories. Dylan also recently led fundraising for Andrew Yang’s historic 2020 campaign for president.

KEY MEMBERS

Dr. Michael Jin
Chief Science Officer

Pete Adams
Researcher

Dr. Welton Chang
Disinformation Expert

Stanley McBride
Researcher

Sabrina Heasley
Designer

Kirsten Chilstrom
Photographer

Dylan DeMarko
Video Editor

Ashley Lake
Designer

Ben Tuber
Animator

Sangita Rajan
Data ScientistAnimator

Carlos E. Gary-Bicas
Data Scientist

Max Hao, MD
Data Scientist
ADVISORS

Rory Sutherland
Executive Vice Chairman
Ogilvy UK

Andrew Essex
CEO, Founder Plan A;
Founding CEO Droga 5

David Jay
Head of Mobilization
The Center for Humane Technology

Dr. Aurora Schmidt
Network Dynamic Researcher
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Shahed Amanullah
Managing Director
Frost Capital

Diane Weddington
Faculty, Practice of Public Policy and Media at Duke University

Clare O'Donoghue Velikić
Founder ODV Digital
Fmr Facebook Government & Politics Client Partner

Adriel Luis
Curator & Community Organizer

MEMBERS' PREVIOUS CLIENTS
COLLABORATORS

Dr. William Myles
CEO of the Albany Housing
Authority of Albany, GA

Big Josh
Rapper

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Jo3 H3nson
Rapper

Cantrell
Rapper

OG Twelve
Rapper





