John Zang Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Building and maintaining relationships with congressional staff and other policy professionals to support and promote clients' comprehensive legislative agendas.• Communicating clients' positions on legislative and regulatory affairs/issues to government agencies, interest groups, and elected officials.• Identifying, crafting, executing, & advocating policy positions to internal and external audiences.• Providing grant monitoring, development, and writing services for local, state, federal, and private grant projects.• Reviewing legislative hearings & drafting comments on federal rulemaking proposals & studies.• Implementing programs and strategies to achieve clients' government relations objectives.• Reviewing and developing positions on issues involving legal and regulatory complexity.• Helping to implement grassroots and grasstops programs and internal communications.• Analyzing and articulating complex concepts to policy stakeholders.• Drafting written materials to support clients' policy agendas.• Tracking and providing legislative and regulatory information.

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Aided in the development of legislative and regulatory strategies• Drafted policy documents, one-pagers, and other materials as needed• Prepared account service-related documents such as agendas, reports, proposals, and other client communications and correspondence.• Participating in and documenting discussions during client meetings and calls.• Maintaining current work-in-progress records and archives of past project information.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Managed advance and staffed candidate at all campaign events, working with campaign manager to coordinate campaign schedule• Coordinated development, implementation, and management of fundraising and finance plan for the statewide judicial campaign during the primary• Managed NGP, low & high dollar events, donor prospecting, research, online fundraising, and email during primary• Assisted on state & city financial reporting and compliance & call time• Assisted in communications, fieldwork, & event coordination

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Recruited, trained, and managed a team of organizers to meet voter contact and capacity-building goals• Developed strategies and systems to successfully meet daily and weekly organizing metrics, as well as maintain data integrity.• Used digital tools to engage new volunteers, expand the electorate, and highlight the campaign.• Met voter contact and capacity-building goals.• Managed relationships with community leaders, allied organizations, political stakeholders, and local activists.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Researched multiple federal and state policy issues and cause campaigns on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, educational institutions, and other private companies• Assisted in the authoring of multiple grant applications ranging from $150,000 up to over $1.2 million to private, state, and federal entities on behalf of business & nonprofit clients• Assisted architectural engineering firms & health care institutions in targeting federal contracts• Monitored, summarized, and reported weekly to firm clients on federal & state legislative and regulatory developments• Assisted with grant writing on a freelance basis in December 2014

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: American University Law Review, Volumes 70 & 71

B.A., International Politics

Activities and Societies: University Park Undergraduate Association, Liberal Arts Undergraduate Council, Political Science Association.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Prefect, Class Captain, Swim Team Captain (2009), Headmaster's Award (2009), Excellence in Spanish Award (2009).