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Tom Freedman, President
As President of Freedman Consulting, LLC, Tom
Freedman is an advisor to leading political figures, corporations, and
non-profit organizations developing policy ideas that become part of an
effective strategic message. Mr. Freedman served in the
Clinton Administration as Senior Advisor to the President, and prior to
that as Special Assistant to the President for policy
planning. In
the 1996 presidential campaign, Mr. Freedman was Chief of Staff for
Strategy helping to create the policy and communications plan for
Clinton/Gore ’96. Previously he was Press Secretary and later
Legislative Director to then Congressman Charles E. Schumer
(D-NY).
He co-founded the non-profit organization, the Welfare to Work
Partnership, which grew to include more than 20,000 companies that
hired more than 1 million Americans off of public assistance. Mr. Freedman served as a member of the 2008 presidential Obama-Biden Transition Project on the Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform Policy Working Group. Mr.
Freedman is an honors graduate of Carleton College, and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where he was Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review. Mr.
Freedman was awarded a traveling Watson Fellowship in 1985 and
conducted a year long study of the African famine. He is also a
senior fellow at the Washington-based Progressive Policy
Institute. He has published
opinion articles in a variety of newspapers including The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post. In 2009, Mr. Freedman authored the chapter of recommendations for the next Domestic Policy Council in the book Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President (Center for American Progress) and wrote a chapter on ending child hunger in America with Joel Berg in the book Memos to the New President (Progressive Policy Institute). Karin Freedman, Vice PresidentKarin K. Freedman is the Vice President of Freedman Consulting, LLC and an expert in press relations and event planning. She served in the Clinton Administration from 1995 until 2001 in various capacities, including as Communications Director and Chief of Staff of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House, as well as Special Assistant to the President. From 2001 through 2005 Ms. Freedman served at the Democratic Leadership Council and Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, DC as Press Secretary, the senior officer in charge of media relations. Ms. Freedman has also served on Capitol Hill as a member of the staff of the United States Senate Budget Committee. Ms. Freedman is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of California at Los Angles (UCLA). Sam Gill, Senior Associate Sam Gill recently completed his tenure as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he received an MPhil in Political Theory with Distinction (highest honors). Before attending Oxford, Sam was employed in the research department at Media Matters for America. He also worked at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights and at Mental Disability Rights International, where he helped to produce a report entitled, "Behind Closed Doors: Human Rights Abuses in the Psychiatric Facilities, Orphanages and Rehabilitation Centers of Turkey." The report has subsequently prompted the development of grassroots level organizing on behalf of people with disabilities in Turkey and has led to concrete government reforms in the treatment of people with disabilities. A native of Minneapolis, Sam graduated from the University of Chicago in 2005 with an AB with Honors in Political Science. As an undergraduate, he was named to Phi Beta Kappa during his junior year and was made a Student Marshal of the University, the highest academic honor conferred to undergraduates. Samuel Feder, Associate Sam Feder is an associate with Freedman Consulting. He graduated magna cum laude from Paul Weinstein, Senior Fellow Paul Weinstein Jr. is chief operating officer of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), where he is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of both organizations. Furthermore, as a PPI senior fellow, Mr. Weinstein writes and speaks on an array of issues including pension and tax reform, budget and transportation policy, corporate responsibility, housing policy, and government reform. In addition to his responsibilities with DLC/PPI, Mr. Weinstein also serves on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University Washington Center for Advanced Academic Programs. Mr. Weinstein has also lectured at Columbia University and Georgetown University. Weinstein is co-author of, The Art of Policymaking, a university-level textbook on policymaking in the executive branch of government. His writings have also appeared in The Boston Globe, Investors Business Daily, The Washington Monthly, The Hill, and Politico among others. Mr. Weinstein has developed policy in a wide range of areas and at the highest levels of government. He joined President Clinton at the start of his 1992 campaign as Senior Policy Advisor, and served in his administration as Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff of the Domestic Policy Council. In these roles, he advised the President in a number of areas including economic development, tax policy, government and political reform, environmental issues, and housing. Mr. Weinstein helped write a number of important policy initiatives, including the Administration's brownfields initiative and the law that established the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. In 1999, Weinstein joined the staff of Vice President Gore as his Senior Advisor for Policy Planning and Coordination. In this capacity, he was responsible for developing and managing much of Vice President Gore's domestic and economic agenda. Before joining the Clinton administration, Weinstein served as a legislative aide to former Representative C. Thomas McMillen (D-MD) and then-Senator Albert Gore Jr. (D-TN). Weinstein was born and raised in New York City and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University. He received his Master's from Columbia University. Ed Gerrish, Research Analyst Ed Gerrish is an associate with Freedman Consulting. Prior to that, he was a Staff Assistant in the Office of U.S. Senator Tim Johnson and was a field organizer for the South Dakota Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign in 2002. Ed was also the campaign manager for a South Dakota state house race in 2004, and conducted research funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts on the effects of 527 organizations in the Thune/Daschle Senate Race. Ed graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Dakota in 2005 with an Honors B.A. in Political Science and Communication Studies. He was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship in 2004. Nick Gossen, Research Analyst Nick Gossen worked with Freedman Consulting for two years, specializing in public opinion research, data analysis, and state and local policy. He is also a current graduate student at Tufts University. He previously worked as a researcher for the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at the Harvard School of Public Health and as a grants officer for the International Rescue Committee in Matt Lindsey, Research Analyst Matt Lindsey served as the Senior Associate for Freedman Consulting from 2006 to 2008. He previously worked as a program associate at the Partnership for Public Service where he was responsible for a wide portfolio of civil service reform issues. Prior to that, he was employed as a speechwriter and environmental policy analyst in the Office of Secretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Matt also worked with the Centre City Development Corporation in San Diego, CA, to create a new strategy for downtown transit. Matt has published articles and research on several topics, including electricity deregulation and print media innovation. Matt was raised in Overland Park, KS. He is a summa cum laude graduate in political science and economics of the University of Tulsa . He earned a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where he served for two years as the editor of The Citizen. He was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship in 2001. |
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