 After initially working as a satellite consultant, Cummings joined the Hillary Clinton campaign in Arlington, Virginia as an unpaid volunteer in February 2008.Clinton's fundraising, which had lagged behind Barack Obama's, began to improve soon after Cummings joined the campaign.Cummings helped turn things around by seeking out small donors - driving traffic to the Clinton campaign website, making urgent online pitches, and giving donors more control over how their money was spent.