David Halperin

Founder and Former Director, Campus Progress

David is the founder and former director of Campus Progress. He joined the Center for American Progress in September 2004 to build Campus Progress, which was launched in February 2005. He previously was: a consultant and attorney, advising groups including Public Citizen, Greenpeace, and Democracy for America; senior policy advisor and speechwriter for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; founding executive director of the American Constitution Society; Special Assistant for National Security Affairs and speechwriter to President Bill Clinton ; fellow of the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society; legal and policy advisor to Ralph Nader; solo legal practitioner and legal associate to Professor Laurence Tribe; co-founder of Progressive Networks (now RealNetworks); counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee; law clerk to U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell; research assistant to Robert McNamara; and research analyst at the Arms Control Association. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, National Law Journal, Foreign Policy, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, etc. He graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School.

Expertise: Youth organizing, politics, and a whole bunch of policy issues