Simon Rosenberg is founder of The New Politics Institute, anchoring our Washington DC presence. He is also President of NDN, which he founded in 1996 as a Washington-based political action committee and later transformed into a powerful national network which is supporting a new generation of ideas, initiatives and leaders. Simon was a leading candidate for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2005, and he has been working to elect Democrats for nearly twenty years in a dozen states. Before founding NDN, he served as a key member of two presidential campaigns, working for Michael Dukakis in Iowa in 1987-88 and for Bill Clinton in the New Hampshire primary and the Little Rock War Room in 1991-92. From 1993-1996, he worked at the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Leadership Council. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Rosenberg worked as a television news writer and producer for programs that appeared on ABC News, PBS, and various cable stations. He is a member of the Aspen Institute’s 2001 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and served on the 2004 Democratic National Convention Platform Committee.