Kevin Hamm is a small business owner, battle-tested community organizer, fearless activist, and lifelong advocate for the rights and dignity of all Montanans.

Kevin has called Montana his home since the age of five, even when life took him away for a while. This rural childhood armed him with a deep appreciation of the need to invest directly back into our own communities. Our own neighbors and towns are one of our greatest natural resources. He has served on community boards including Queen City Ballet and Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies. He also founded the Happiness & Joy Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which brings tens of thousands of dollars of revenue into Helena every year, through the Montana Pride celebration, which he has directed for the past ten years.

Kevin is also a skilled businessman with a strong record of tapping into fresh economic potential. Through his marketing skill, he helped ATX grow from a $5 million to a $20 million company. He then leveraged this experience to launch two small businesses which continue to thrive today. He founded his first company, Studio 19, in 2010. This company manages live video production for all Frontier Conference athletics across our state, as well as online streaming for Carroll College. By 2018, his reputation as a skilled problem solver had grown his customer base to such a degree that he could launch Auxilyum Technologies, a second company which provides high-touch I.T. support to lighten the technical load faced by small businesses across the state of Montana.

Most importantly, though, Kevin’s background is typically Montana. He has firsthand experience working out of necessity, not as a retirement hobby, or a way to make friends. He knows what it’s like to sacrifice sleep handling the heat in a hot kitchen, and to give sleep up entirely while turning a dream into a success. Kevin knows Montana the way anyone with a Montana childhood will understand. He grew up alongside people who valued character over politics. He formed lifelong friendships with people who disagreed with him on issues that could raise some folk’s hackles. He attended his first day of kindergarten on Four Georgians Elementary School’s first day of operation, and found community in the public schools and community theaters that gifted him with a public education of which he is deeply proud.

These experiences shaped Kevin into the man he is, but they are not unique to him — most Montanans will recognize these stories, and have their own versions to share. Kevin is a candidate who can stand alongside hard working Montanans, who have no family trust fund to fall back on when things go wrong. So, while he may not be rich enough to buy billboards and lobbyists, he has something worth far more: a lifetime of solidarity with working Montanans, and decades of experience advocating for Montanans in every way he possibly can.