About
Team
Founder and CEO
Carri Twigg is the Founder and CEO of American Story™ — a strategic studio for cultural influence and democratic renewal.
A former White House official who served as Special Assistant to President Obama and Director of Public Engagement for Vice President Biden, Carri brings rare fluency in the relationship between media, politics, and culture — and what that relationship means for real people in the real world. Carri is also the co-founder of Culture House Media, co-host of the politics and culture podcast Twigg and Jenkins, and a former member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts, a board of the Kennedy Center.
Her work as a producer and cultural strategist has spanned Netflix, Disney+, MTV, BET, NowThis, and beyond. She has built and consulted on multiple strategic cultural movements, including Schools Not Prisons, Save The Day, and the #BehindTheVote Campaign.
As President of American Story, Carri is bringing everything she has built — the relationships, the craft, the conviction — to the largest stage of her career. Premium entertainment that carries democratic values through story. Content that meets America where it lives, and reminds it of what it is still capable of becoming.
She has spent a career proving that culture change is possible.
American Story is where she hopes to prove it at scale.
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Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer
Jonathan Olinger is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and the founder of HUMAN and HUMAN.vote — organizations built at the nexus of culture and political power.
As a producer and creative strategist, his work has reached audiences through CNN, Univision, The New York Times, MS NOW, and beyond. He has supported Democratic presidential campaigns including Harris, Biden, Sanders, and Bloomberg — and has partnered with leading cultural voices to advance narratives that drive human rights and democratic values.
As Chief Creative Strategist of American Story, Jonathan architects the creative vision and strategic infrastructure behind the studio — shaping what gets made, how it moves, and why it matters. From investor strategy to brand identity to content development, he bridges the distance between conviction and execution.
After building at the intersection of story and power, American Story™ is where that work becomes a studio.
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