Iris Delgado

Biography

Iris Delgado, a resident of Metuchen, is a political data and targeting expert who has worked to help elect public officials in more than 16 states, including Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, and U.S. Congresswoman Terri Sewell, the first African American woman elected to the House of Representatives from Alabama.

Delgado graduated from J.P. Stevens High School in Edison and completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University, earning a bachelor’s degree in English, as well as in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Upon graduation, she joined then Governor Jon Corzine’s re-election campaign. She later went on to serve as National Campaign Operations Director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU), overseeing a $3.1 million operations budget, which was part of a $10 million political program budget supporting 425-member political organizers across 26 states.

Delgado returned to her home state in 2017 to run the coordinated campaign to elect Governor Phil Murphy. Since 2017, she has lead campaigns to elect leaders at all levels of government throughout the state, was appointed by Speaker Coughlin as a Commissioner to the New Jersey Congressional Redistricting Commission, and opened a strategic consulting firm to train the next generation of leaders.