Contributor Bio
DA Contributor Bio
Heather HurlburtExecutive Directorhhurlburt@nsnetwork.org | |
| Heather Hurlburt is the Executive Director of the National Security Network. Heather brings nearly two decades of experience developing, shaping and communicating US foreign policy to her work in strategy and messaging, bridging the gap between policy experts, political leaders and the American public. For five years she ran her own communications and strategy practice, with a broad client list including individual political, entertainment and educational leaders as well as groups such as DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Stanley Foundation, and many others. She is a Senior Adviser to the US in the World Project of the New America Foundation (www.usintheworld.org), of which she was a founding writer. Previously, she spent significant time in government, in the non-profit sector, and overseas. From 1995-2001, she served in the Clinton Administration, first as a speechwriter to Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, and member of the Policy Planning Staff, and then in the White House as Special Assistant and Speechwriter to President Clinton. She was the Washington deputy director of the International Crisis Group (ICG) and served as a program director at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She spent four years as a member of the US delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), seconded from the Congressional Helsinki Commission, in which time she participated in both European security and human rights negotiations and Congressional staff work. She appears frequently as a commentator in print and new media, as a founding member of the national security blog Democracy Alliance (www.democracyalliance.org) and a regular guest on Robert Wright’s Blogging Heads (www.bloggingheads.tv). | |
