Rodriquez Wright II has worked in campaigns since 2012, first in Nashville, then across the country as a field director, and now through his own firm, Leo Operations. His work centers on field organizing, voter contact and campaign management.
Nashville, 2012 to 2015
Wright started while still a student at Tennessee State University. In 2012 he was a Davidson County field organizer for the Tennessee Democratic Party and a field organizer for Sharon Gentry's re-election to the Metro Nashville school board, where Gentry defeated 27-year incumbent Ed Kindall. From 2013 to 2015 he worked for the Nashville public affairs firm Calvert Street Group. In 2014 he managed Allegra Walker's campaign for Davidson County General Sessions judge and consulted for Kelvin Jones's campaign for Circuit Court judge.
In 2015 he was deputy campaign manager and then campaign manager for former vice mayor Howard Gentry's campaign for mayor of Nashville, then community outreach director for David Fox in the September runoff.
National field work, 2015 to 2020
From 2015 to 2016 Wright was a campaign associate with Revolution Field Strategies, a Boston canvassing firm, directing petition drives and canvass programs in several states. They included the signature drive for a Massachusetts ballot initiative on hospital prices and the drive for Montana's I-181 brain research bond program. He also worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 New Hampshire primary campaign.
- 2017: field director for canvassing on Kansas City's $800 million general obligation bond package, which voters approved.
- 2017 to 2018: campaign manager for Omar Passons's campaign for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
- 2018: directed petition drives for Arizona's Invest in Ed initiative, which submitted about 270,000 signatures, and for the one-cent transportation tax in Hillsborough County, Florida, which voters approved.
- 2018: Tennessee state project director for BlackPAC.
- 2019: directed the Chicago canvass for The Black Institute's #KeepStarz campaign.
- December 2019: named Tennessee organizing director for Michael Bloomberg's 2020 presidential campaign, which opened its state headquarters in Nashville that month.
Leo Operations
Wright founded Leo Operations, a Nashville firm providing campaign management, field strategy, media production and digital marketing for campaigns, elected officials, nonprofits and businesses. Through the firm he was campaign manager for District Attorney Glenn Funk's 2022 re-election, and digital consultant to Metro Council at-large members Zulfat Suara and Burkley Allen in 2019 and 2023. In 2023 Suara and Allen were re-elected as part of the first at-large Metro Council delegation made up entirely of women. He is also digital consultant to Sharon Hurt's 2026 campaign for Davidson County Clerk.
In 2023 the firm was a field consultant for SEIU Virginia during that year's Virginia General Assembly elections. Its photo and video clients have included Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, state legislators Justin Jones, London Lamar, Charlane Oliver, Gloria Johnson, Jesse Chism and Heidi Campbell, and Dan Osborn's 2024 U.S. Senate campaign in Nebraska.