PlatformUS empowers legislators and community advocates through nonpartisan public policy education, to strengthen the general Welfare of the people and pursue the public good.

Policy that puts the public first.

PlatformUS is dedicated to developing, expanding, and promoting the general Welfare of the people, with an aim to advance the public good at every level of government. PlatformUS will do so by convening, educating, and organizing elected officials, community-based organizations, and the general public around policy rooted in catalyzing opportunity for all people.

Elected officials are often insufficiently resourced and lack the staff expertise to excel at their legislative duties. This capacity gap leads them to rely on entrenched special interests or bureaucratic leadership while attempting to pursue reforms in the public interest, despite both often benefiting from the status quo. What results is slickly marketed inertia and only superficial “progress” for the public.

Meanwhile, public-interest advocacy organizations tend to form around single-issue challenges. Advocates identify social and economic problems, but only offer vague “ideas” for policy and programmatic solutions. This is coupled with a general misunderstanding of legislative and budgetary processes, as well as lacking experience to strategize for political success.

These parallel shortfalls degrade trust in government itself, simultaneously breathing life into accusations that elected officials work for special interests, and not the public, while producing policy that is shallow, unresponsive, and incapable of meeting the public’s needs.

  • Founder & Executive Director

    Andy Kopp is the founder and Executive Director of PlatformUS, based in San Diego, CA. He is U.S. Navy veteran, a former Defense Intelligence Community professional, and current public policy and strategy expert with more than two decades of experience interpreting and developing strategic and operational plans for government and civilian sector organizations.