Tom Freedman
Tom Freedman is a consultant who served in the White House as Senior Advisor to President of the United States Bill Clinton. He continues to be an advisor to President Clinton. [1] Freedman was also Chief of Staff for Political Strategy for the Clinton/Gore Campaign in 1996, part of a team that helped define Republican Bob Dole early in the race using a multi-million ad campaign. Freedman served as a member of the 2008 presidential Obama-Biden Transition Project on the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform Policy Working Group. [2] Freedman was a policy consultant for the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012. [3] Today he is the President of Freedman Consulting, a strategic consulting firm, and writes on public policy issues. [4]
Obama's transition, 2008
During President Barack Obama’s transition, Freedman authored a chapter of recommendations for the next Domestic Policy Council in the Center for American Progress book Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President.[5] Also, he wrote a chapter on ending child hunger in America with Joel Berg in the book Memos to the New President”.[6]
Early Life and Career
Previously, Mr. Freedman was Press Secretary and later Legislative Director to then Congressman Charles E. Schumer (D-NY). He co-founded with Eli Segal the non-profit organization, the Welfare to Work Partnership, which grew to include more than 20,000 companies that hired more than one million Americans off of public assistance.
A graduate of Carleton College, Mr. Freedman attended the University of California at Berkeley where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review.In 1985, Freedman was awarded a traveling Watson Fellowship and conducted a year-long study of African famine. He has published opinion pieces in a variety of newspapers including The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.[7]
Publications
Some of Mr. Freedman’s authored and co-authored publications include:
- “Fulfilling the President’s Call: A Partnership with States to End Hunger in America by 2015” http://www.dlc.org/documents/Freedman-Shore_Child_Hunger_050609.pdf
- “A Kindle in Every Backpack: A Proposal for eTextbooks in American Schools” http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=140&subid=292&contentid=255033
- “Hunger, Poverty, and Politics: What Do Voters Want?” http://alliancetoendhunger.org/pressroom/project-archives/documents/HMPReport2003-WhatDoVotersWant.pdf
- “Ending Childhood Hunger in America” http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=254836&kaid=450020&subid=900201
- “Helping Americans Help Themselves: Toward a National Single Stop Policy and More Efficient, More Effective Poverty Fighting” http://www.dlc.org/documents/SingleStop.pdf
- “An Electorate Ready for Action: 10 Key Findings on Hunger” http://www.alliancetoendhunger.org/pressroom/documents/HungerMessageProject2008ExitPollReport-email-printversion.pdf
External links
References
- ↑ "The New Republic, Schumer's Web".
- ↑ "DLC".
- ↑ "The Federal Election Commission".
- ↑ "Politico, Arena".
- ↑ "Change for America".
- ↑ "Memos to the New President".
- ↑ Freedman, Thomas Z. (2 February 2007). "Washington Post". The Washington Post.