If Democrats win control of the House in the midterms, leaders of the moderate New Democrat Coalition expect their 114-member bloc, already the largest ideological faction among House Democrats, to grow and advance its artificial intelligence agenda. The consultant raising money for the coalition’s political arm also runs a corporate-backed nonprofit that brings executives from Anthropic, Nvidia, and Oracle into private discussions with congressional staff and advises a tech industry group that seeks to shape the party’s AI agenda.
Helen Milby is the longtime treasurer and top paid fundraising adviser to the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund, a PAC that supports the coalition’s candidates. She also runs GlobalWIN, a bipartisan nonprofit with partners including Anthropic and a16z that sponsors congressional travel, private dinners, and policy discussions that connect lawmakers with business executives. Milby also serves on the advisory board of the tech industry group Chamber of Progress, whose corporate backers include Google, OpenAI, and Coinbase and which says it wants to “shape the kind of Democrats who win in 2026.”
These overlapping roles give the tech industry channels into both the electoral operation working to expand the New Democrats and the private policy conversations that reach their staff and members. The Action Fund has endorsed 50 candidates this cycle, including 36 of the 46 in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue program of districts it aims to flip. Its website says it has raised and bundled more than $12 million this cycle for its candidates. “We expect that our numbers are going to swell in the next Congress,” Action Fund Chair Greg Stanton, an Arizona Democrat, told Roll Call this month.
The coalition’s innovation agenda, unveiled in July 2025, calls for rejecting licensing and registration requirements for AI developers in favor of transparency standards, incremental regulation, and “voluntary collaboration with industry and developers” on safety. It calls for penalizing harmful uses of AI, such as fraud, deception, and invasions of privacy, with “case-by-case exceptions” for models that “may inherently pose some form of threat.” It also calls for accelerating permitting for grid expansions and offering tax incentives for data centers that use sustainable energy.
The Action Fund paid Helen Milby & Company $462,000 for fundraising consulting from January 2025 through August 2026, while GlobalWIN paid it $544,200 for management services in 2024, according to filings with the FEC and IRS. The organizations have also listed the same Capitol Hill address on their paperwork and shared personnel through Milby’s firm, including a senior director who managed GlobalWIN’s operations while also working on efforts for the Action Fund.
Milby did not respond to a request for comment.
GlobalWIN describes its mission as supporting women working in politics and innovation. Its corporate membership program supports policy discussions, professional development, dinners and travel. Eligible members can join an advisory council that helps inform its direction and programming. Among its corporate partners are AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI; Big Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Meta; and Republican-aligned organizations like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Fox News owner Fox Corporation.
Last month, the nonprofit brought a group of congressional staff to the Bay Area for meetings at Amazon Web Services, Waymo, Anthropic, Lyft, Oracle, and Instacart. At Anthropic, the staffers participated in a discussion of AI policy with company President and Co-Founder Daniela Amodei and Head of Public Policy Sarah Heck. Instacart’s head of global public policy also addressed the delegation, and Nvidia’s chief marketing officer joined the group for a dinner discussion about AI and computing.
Among the participants was Emily Noriega-May, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ deputy chief of staff. The groups also invited aides to Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican leaders Steve Scalise and Tom Emmer, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as staff from the Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means and Intelligence committees.
The nonprofit’s leadership includes tech executives whose jobs center around influencing government policy. Its board chair, Ashleigh de la Torre, leads Amazon’s transportation and sustainability legislative and regulatory affairs teams. International Chair Allison O’Brien oversees Oracle’s PAC and political programs, including policymaker engagement, according to GlobalWIN’s announcement of her appointment. Board member Sydney Paul leads venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s Senate Democratic program. She previously handled Meta’s engagement with Senate Democrats after working as senior legislative counsel to Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan.
