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During the 2008 presidential campaign, three young staffers to then-Senator Obama- Eric Lesser, Arun Chaudhary, and Herbie Ziskend- organized an impromptu Seder with Obama and a small group of staffers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. [4] President Obama said it was "a tradition we have looked forward to each year since hosting the first-ever White House Seder in 2009." [5]

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After leaving the White House, Ziskend worked as Chief of Staff to Arianna Huffington at the Huffington Post Media Group in New York City, and as the Director of Public Policy and Rise of Rest Investments at Revolution LLC- an investment firm led by AOL co-founder Steve Case.

Ziskend consulted for Netflix on Season 2 of the show House of Cards.[6]

Ziskend has a B.A. from Cornell University and is a Dubin Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.[7]

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Jake Levine is a member of the firm’s Public Policy Practice Group, and its Clean Energy and Climate Industry Group. Mr. Levine advises clients on a variety of public policy, legislative, regulatory, and business matters related to clean energy, climate, water, transportation, and technology.

Prior to joining Covington, Mr. Levine held a number of senior positions at the intersection of clean energy policy and technology. Mr. Levine served most recently as Senior Counsel and Principal Consultant to California State Senator Fran Pavley, where he led a team focused on state policy related to climate change, electric vehicles, energy storage, drought and water policy. As part of his duties in the State Senate, Mr. Levine led the successful campaign to draft, design, and enact SB 32 (Pavley) and AB 197 (Garcia), new climate and environmental justice legislation in California.

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Harvard Kennedy School, MPA ’15; Georgetown Univ. Law Center, JD ’15

Speechwriter & Advisor to Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

What specific leadership lesson did you take away from any of the co-curricular sessions or activities at CPL?

Empathy. By this I mean the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and see a problem from their perspective. The sessions brought together a diverse group of students from different fields and different backgrounds. I listened to their stories and focused on how each of them could impact their community through their chosen profession. I was inspired to learn more and branch out in my own studies. Every Wednesday night, as fellows shared their ambitions and struggles, I was exposed to new parts of the country and the world. So, in the end, the lesson learned was how to empathize, and, hopefully, become a better leader in the process.

Talk about the elements of the fellowship experience that were most meaningful within your specific cohort.

The most rewarding part of the fellowship is how we remain a part of each other’s lives. We may not talk as often as we would like, but we share updates – both professional and personal – and look to each other for advice when we face difficult decisions. Our cohort bonded in our ten months together – not just in our sessions at HKS, but through long conversations outside the classroom and all the other unscripted moments that defined our fellowship year. The fact we look out for one another and challenge each other to fulfill the promises we made is the most meaningful part of my experience.

In what ways do you think your experiences at CPL and HKS have helped you get better at what you do or hope to do?

CPL and HKS are innovation laboratories. They are incubators of public service. In my work after school I have served in the State Department working on counter-terrorism issues and at the IMF working on global economic problems. In both positions I brought my CPL experience with me by trying to look outside the narrow parameters of a particular field. My fellowship put a bunch of lawyers, doctors, and businesspeople in a room together on Wednesday nights and said, ‘let’s see what you can do.’ And that’s how I think about challenges today. I recognize that you can’t solve problems by only drawing on your own expertise. You need to look outside your comfort zone and see how someone else may think of the same issue. This cross-pollination of ideas is where problem solving exists, and that, for me, is a lasting gift of HKS and CPL.

https://cpl.hks.harvard.edu/josh-lipsky

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she ran and lost for a seat in CA state politics

she appears to do nothing now except be in non profit shit

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Contents

1 Early life and education

2 Career

2.1 Boards

3 Women's health advocacy

4 References

5 Further reading

Early life and education

Born in Los Angeles, Campoverdi was raised by a single mother and her grandmother who immigrated to the United States from Mexico.[4] Campoverdi's mother initially worked in a factory that manufactured car floor mats before later becoming a kindergarten teacher at a school in inner-city Los Angeles.[5][6] Campoverdi spent her childhood sharing a cramped apartment with her mother, grandmother, and several aunts and uncles.[7] There were periods when her family was on welfare, WIC and Medi-Cal, California’s public health insurance.[8] Campoverdi attended Saint Monica Catholic High School on financial assistance and with the support of non-profits and pipeline programs.[7]

She graduated cum laude from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). Campoverdi worked as a part-time actress and model during her time at USC to pay for her education.[9] She later received her Master of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[7] Growing up in L.A. during the 1990s, Campoverdi points to the vote for Proposition 187 and the Rodney King Riots as events that shaped her worldview and served as a political awakening.[8]

Career

After working for the Agricultural Worker Health Initiative at The California Endowment, a health-focused foundation that expands access to quality and affordable healthcare to underserved communities in California,[6] and following her master's degree, Campoverdi was hired by then-Senator Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, to work in the Chicago headquarters.[6] She lived off her credit cards, had no health insurance and stayed in supporter housing.[8] Campoverdi's focus during the campaign was outreach to various constituent groups, including the Latino community.[10]

Alejandra Campoverdi briefs President Obama in the Oval Office

Following Obama's victory, Campoverdi was appointed to work in the West Wing of the White House as Special Assistant to the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Mona Sutphen.[11] She later became the first ever White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media.[12] In the latter role, Campoverdi developed and implemented the White House’s communications strategy directed towards the Hispanic community and briefed President Obama in preparation for interviews with Hispanic media. Campoverdi also worked on White House communications around a broad range of issues, including the Affordable Care Act and its effects on the Latino community.[13]

In 2012, Campoverdi left the White House and joined Univision as Senior Advisor for Innovation and Communications Strategy, where she also worked with the team that launched Fusion.[14][4] Campoverdi subsequently served as Managing Editor of #EmergingUS at the Los Angeles Times, a multimedia venture founded by Jose Antonio Vargas that explores race, immigration and the emerging American identity.[15]

In December 2016, Campoverdi announced that she would seek the nomination of the Democratic Party in the special election for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 34th congressional district,[12] replacing Rep. Xavier Becerra, who has been appointed to succeed Kamala Harris as Attorney General of California.[7] The catalyst for Campoverdi’s congressional run was the election of President Donald Trump and the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act.[16] In the April 4, 2017 primary election, Campoverdi did not make the run-off.[17]

Boards

Campoverdi serves on the Boards of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the California Community Foundation,[18] the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy,[19] UCLA's Center for Diverse Leadership in Science,[20] and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.[21]

In 2017, Campoverdi was appointed to serve as a Commissioner for the California Children and Families Commission, also known as First 5 California. The Commission is a statewide body that is dedicated to improving the lives of California’s youngest citizens and their families through a multi-faceted approach that includes education, health services, childcare, and other vital programs.[22]

She is a volunteer teacher for InsideOUT Writers, through which she teaches a weekly creative writing class to incarcerated youth in Los Angeles’ Central Juvenile Hall.

Women's health advocacy

In March 2017, Campoverdi revealed in a Washington Post profile that she has inherited the BRCA2 gene mutation, giving her an 85% risk of developing breast cancer, and that she plans to have a preventive double mastectomy. Campoverdi lost both her great-grandmother and grandmother to breast cancer, and her mother and aunt have also battled the disease.[4]

Campoverdi made the protection of access to affordable healthcare and the Affordable Care Act a focus of her congressional campaign. Two days after she went public with her diagnosis, she released a television ad in which she stated “If Donald Trump wants to have a conversation about women’s bodies, let’s start with mine.” Campoverdi chose to speak publicly about her personal health in an effort to bring attention to the stakes of limited access to healthcare.[23]

In 2017, Campoverdi was awarded Penn Medicine's Basser Center for BRCA's inaugural YLC Distinguished Advocacy Award for her advocacy around BRCA-related cancers.[24]

In a viral op-ed for Cosmopolitan,[25] Campoverdi wrote, "Now more than ever, we must recognize and accept the complexity of real women, and celebrate them in their quest for leadership roles. Whole, multidimensional women. Please throw your name in the arena, whichever one you’re in — because it only gets better every time one of us tries."[26]

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