Saikat Chakrabarti

Saikat Chakrabarti (Shoi-cut Choc-rah-bartee, born January 12, 1986) is an American political advisor, climate policy advocate, and software engineer. A progressive Democrat, Chakrabarti co-founded Justice Democrats, which powered Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's successful insurgent challenge to Representative Joe Crowley, and Chakrabarti served as her campaign manager. He then served as chief of staff to Ocasio-Cortez, who became the U.S. representative from New York's 14th congressional district, until 2019.

Chakrabarti left Ocasio-Cortez's office to run New Consensus, a group promoting the Green New Deal, whose development he led. He is running to succeed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the representative for California's 11th congressional district in the 2026 U.S House election. Chakrabarti was a founding engineer at Stripe, Inc. and began his political career as the Director of Organizing Technology for Senator Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, which he joined in its early stages.