Helder Toste serves as the Government Affairs Liaison for The LIBRE Initiative where he focuses on partnering with Members of Congress and their staff to solve some of our most pressing issues in economic, health care, and immigration policy. 

Previously, Helder Toste was the Field Director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where he organized Hispanic voter contact efforts for 8 U.S. Senate campaigns and helped Republicans secure a record share of the Hispanic vote in a midterm election.

Before that role, Helder was the National Hispanic Outreach Director for the Republican National Committee during the 2020 election and worked in Congress for Representative Nunes (R-CA), and Representative Paulsen (R-MN) from 2016 to 2017.

 His grassroots work has been featured in several media outlets including NPR, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, CNN, and PBS. 

Helder graduated from Yale University with dual degrees in Latin American Studies and Pre-Columbian Art History. 

Helder grew up on a dairy farm in the Central Valley in Tulare, California in and is the proud son of Mexican and Portuguese Immigrants.