Madrigal has also tried out another character, appearing at Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's April Senate hearing dressed as a flame-haired 'Russian troll doll' - but Monopoly Man is a crowd favorite. Monopoly Man first showed up in October 2017, at Smith's Equifax hearing, and has since made three more appearances at congressional hearings. 'I consider it using one billionaire' - Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post - 'to fight a different billionaire,' they note. Madrigal assembled a costume from clearance racks and Amazon vendors. (Madrigal currently appears as Monopoly Man outside of their job at Revolution Messaging.) Madrigal, who had appeared in improv comedy videos in high school, volunteered they proposed appearing at hearings as a way to draw attention to Public Citizen's campaign against forced arbitration, in which employees or consumers are required to waive their right to a class-action lawsuit. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and to a position at the consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, where a co-worker suggested that someone dress as Monopoly Man. Law school at UCLA led to a job as a legal fellow for Sen. But Madrigal was soon picketing a nearby Disney Store over allegations that its clothes were made in sweatshops. Their family was conservative - both parents voted for Trump in 2016, Madrigal says - and few of their friends talked politics.

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