BerlinRosen is pleased to announce the addition of three stellar new members to our team

[Omaha Steve]

BerlinRosen is pleased to announce the addition of three stellar new members to our team.

Andy McDonald will join BerlinRosen on January 1st as the Managing Director of our national issue advocacy practice. Andy comes to BerlinRosen from the Pew Charitable Trusts where he serves as a senior communications officer directing communications strategy for the Pew Center on the States. At Pew, his work has focused on positioning and advancing research work and advocacy campaigns on a diverse set of issues including the economy, state fiscal health, sentencing and corrections, election administration, pre-kindergarten, children’s dental health and more.

Prior to Pew, McDonald served as the Assistant Director of Communications at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) where he directed message development, external media, internal communications and online strategy for organizing, legislative and corporate social responsibility campaigns at the global, national and local levels.

At SEIU, Andy led communications for the union’s property services division – including the national Justice for Janitors and security officers’ campaigns -- as well as for campaigns with the public services and healthcare divisions and in support of Wall Street reform and immigration reform. Before joining SEIU, Andy served as the Press Secretary to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota).

In the past year BerlinRosen’s national issue advocacy group has worked with a diverse array of clients shaping the national debate, including:

* Health Care for America Now – the national campaign to pass health care reform,
* the Communication Workers of America’s campaign against the “Cadillac” excise tax on high value health insurance plans,
* the National Employment Law Project’s campaign to extend unemployment insurance benefits,
* the Brennan Center for Justice’s 2010 election protection effort,
* the Family Values at Work consortium – a diverse group of organizations in 14 states working to shape the debate on family friendly workplace policies like paid sick days and paid leave,
* Wider Opportunities for Women, and
* state-level campaigns for SEIU and a number of unions around the country.

Andy will lead a major expansion of our national practice as we support more progressive organizations, campaigns and causes at the national level and in cities and states across the country.

We’re also pleased to announce two additions to our public affairs and campaigns and elections practice.

Dan Levitan joins BerlinRosen after three years as the Communications Director for the Working Families Party in New York where he led the development and implementation of strategic communications campaigns leveraging earned, paid and social media for dozens of candidate and legislative campaigns. Prior to joining the WFP, Dan was an organizer for SEIU and the Communications Workers of America.

Matt Tepper comes to BerlinRosen fresh off of managing U.S. Rep Carolyn Maloney’s blowout re-election campaign. Prior to that he served as the field director for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.’s 2009 campaign and as the school outreach director for LEARN NY, mobilizing parents and school principals to engage in the successful effort to extend mayoral control of the NYC schools. In the 2008 presidential campaign, Matt served in a number of field organizing roles for Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign - starting as a regional field director in the New Hampshire primary and then hop-scotching the country from South Dakota to Pennsylvania to Texas.

In these challenging times, we're pleased to be able to continue to expand the ways we can help our clients achieve their strategic goals.