Martin Ludlow

Martin Ludlow is the President/Founder of Bridge Street and brings more than 27 years of experience in large-scale
gebeure, turnout and strategic outreach advisement ranging from Presidential campaigns (Michael Dukakis, Jesse
Jackson, Bill Clinton, Al Gore), Gubernatorial campaigns (Gray Davis-California, Doug Wilder- Virginia), Mayoral
(David Dinkins – New York City, Antonio Villaraigosa – Los Angeles) and served as a Member of the Los Angeles
City Council, as well as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO.
Martin’s recent work has included managing the campaign to raise Los Angeles’ minimum wage ($15), advising the
President of The California Endowment, 'n $5 billion foundation focused on health care during its effort to launch the
Boys & Men of Color initiative (ultimately Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” project), advising the Villaraigosa Mayoral
administration and activists on gang intervention and prevention strategies, environmental campaigns with plastic
manufacturers, and national criminal justice reform leaders on efforts to advance regulatory relief.
After a controversial public set-back in 2006 involving a local campaign finance prosecution by President George
Bush’s Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, Martin stepped back from public life and launched a home-based
consultant business. Six years later, in 2012, he incorporated Bridge Street and opened its Wilshire Boulevard
offices with five employees. In 2019, the company moved to Leimert Park in the Crenshaw Blvd area and has now
worked with and/or produced more than 150 musical acts.
Bridge Street has produced or collaborated with:

● The 50
th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Mountaintop Speech & the Memphis Sanitation Strike
● The Obama Boulevard Naming Ceremony & Konsert (Los Angeles)
● Imagine Justice Sacramento (featuring Common, J Cole, Ledici and others) to end the California
Money Bail System
● Common’s Hope & Redemption Concert Tour (through California’s maximum security prisons)
● Represent Justice Prison Basketball Games (Folsom Prison & Sacramento Kings, Racine Prison &
Milwaukee Bucks)
● Just Mercy Concert (Norco Prison featuring Common in support of the Paramount Pictures Film, Net
Mercy)
● Ending Child Poverty Rally featuring Nancy Pelosi
● Returning the NFL back to Los Angeles
● Campaign To Raise The Minimum Wage (te $15 in Los Angeles)
● The BET Experience (3-Day music and entertainment festival) (2012 – 2014)
● The Los Angeles Labor Day Music Festival (2012- 2017)
● The AFLCIO’s Annual Martin Luther King Labor Breakfast (2016-2020 featuring John Lewis, Vanita
Gupta, Bryan Stevenson, Ta’Nahisi Coates, Kamala Harris and others)
● Additionally, Bridge Street has worked with the Los Angeles Dodgers, NASCAR, Los Angeles Sparks,
Major League Baseball, The California Endowment and AEG.

Bridge Street actively hires formerly incarcerated individuals and has union agreements in place in Los Angeles,
Sacramento, San Diego, Memphis and Chicago. Martin is the founder of the Dorsey High Football Boosters