David Whitman Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Consulting firm provides editorial and communications services to clients, including strategic communications support, ghostwriting, speech writing, and rewriting/editing services.

Chief Speechwriter for U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Authored dozens of major policy addresses for Secretary Duncan and more than 150 speeches covering the full gamut of education issues. Ghosted numerous newspaper op-eds, magazine articles, and blog posts; drafted and edited a variety of policy and program-related documents and reports. Advised.

Researched and wrote Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism, a book that examines six inner-city secondary schools that have succeeded in closing the achievement gap between white and minority students.

Did research on renewable energy and drafted articles on cellulosic biofuels.

Won an Alicia Patterson media fellowship for 2004 to write three extended magazine articles on the dangers of fine particulate pollution from coal-fired power plants and motor vehicles. Two of the articles appeared in the Washington Monthly.

Covered social policy; toward end of tenure at U.S. News switched to covering environment and energy issues. Researched and wrote more than 200 magazine articles, several dozen cover stories on subjects ranging from homelessness, welfare reform, poverty, and race relations to air pollution, water pollution, national parks, and the energy cost crunch. In.

Wrote case studies of public policy dilemmas used to teach graduate students at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Co-authored two books based on the case studies, The President as Policymaker: Jimmy Carter and Welfare Reform (1981), and How the Press Affects Federal Policymaking (1986).

B.A., Political Science

Activities and Societies: Summa cum laude; president of Amherst 's mixed choir; four year member of the Zumbyes

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