Our Board
Mike
Siegel
Mike Siegel co-founded Ground Game Texas in 2021 with a theory: that leading with popular, progressive issues at the local level is the key to building long-term change in Texas. From 2021 to 2024, he served as the Political Director and General Counsel for Ground Game.
In December of 2024, Mike was elected to represent District 7 on the Austin City Council, and stepped down from his staff position. Mike continues to be involved in Ground Game as a member of the board of directors.
In addition to his work at Ground Game, where he was part of the team that led 17 electoral campaigns and won 14 of them, Mike has had a long career of working in the trenches for progressive change. He got his start as a public school teacher in Oakland, and then became a civil rights attorney. After moving to Austin, Mike served as an Assistant City Attorney in the City Law Department, where he represented dozens of city departments, co-wrote ordinances including Austin’s paid sick leave ordinance, and appeared for the city in numerous cases in state and federal court, including Austin’s lawsuit against Greg Abbott and the State of Texas to stop implementation of 2017 Senate Bill No. 4, a bill that attacked the rights of immigrants in Texas. He coordinated with dozens of public officials across the state, brought the community’s voice to the federal court, and won a statewide injunction to protect immigrant families.
Mike was the Democratic nominee for the heavily gerrymandered Texas district 10 for Congress in 2018 and 2020. His experience running for office in Texas led to the realization that an organization like Ground Game was urgently needed to build progressive electoral power at the municipal level.
Ana
Salas-Porras
Ana Salas-Porras has dedicated much of her life to the causes that matter most in Texas. She has decades of experience as a community advocate for new immigrant families in Austin and on the El Paso-Juárez border, and is a tireless volunteer for progressive candidates and issues in Austin.
Ana is active in growing voter participation and engagement and spends a lot of time phone-banking, knocking on doors, and registering Texans to vote. She is the Vice-President of the North Austin chapter of the Texas Blue Action Democrats. As a strong supporter of public schools, Ana initiated the first “Boot Vouchers” rally that brought 2,000 protestors to the Texas Capitol in 2023.
Prior to her community work, Ana founded the first dental supply catalog in Mexico and worked for 25 years as a dental management consultant in the US.
Ana’s extensive resume as a political volunteer, her focus on voter participation and engagement, and her work across the state and the border make her an invaluable addition to our board of directors, where she has served since 2021.
Megan
Field
Megan Field is an Austin-based producer, consultant, and activist. Over the course of her career, Megan has covered a range of topics related to Texas politics, from working as the Associate Producer and Assistant Editor of the 2004 feature documentary Last Man Standing: Politics – Texas Style to producing two seasons of the Emmy-nominated KLRU series Special Session about the Texas Legislature to producing the award-winning 2022 New Yorker photo essay “Waiting for the School Bus in Uvalde.”
Megan recently oversaw the launch of Grandparents for Public Schools, a Texas-focused advocacy group focused on protecting and strengthening public education in Texas. She is a graduate of the Radio-Television-Film program at the University of Texas at Austin. While attending UT, Megan served two years as the Co-Conference Director of the Austin Film Festival.
Megan brings to Ground Game her deep knowledge of Texas politics, her organizing and planning skills, and her genuine passion for public service.