Heather Hurlburt

Director, New Models of Policy Change

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Hurlburt will lead research into how policy advocacy is adapting to be effective in our current environment of intense political polarization, and provide guidance to advocates and funders seeking to navigate politics effectively on behalf of policy solutions.

Previously, she ran the National Security Network, a premier source for internationalist foreign policy messaging and advocacy; held senior positions in the white House and State Department under President Bill Clinton; and worked on Capitol Hill and for the International Crisis Group. She holds degrees from Brown and George Washington Universities.

Expertise:

  • National Security
  • Foreign policy
  • US politics
  • Speechwriting

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Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change
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Featured Publications

Publications

  • article | January 22, 2015

    The State of the Union as Netflix

    In the week leading up to this year’s State of the Union, the question of whether the speech and its rituals still matter seemed to get almost as m...
  • in the news | November 04, 2014 | Political Reform

    The Fear Playbook

    Making the world scary is good politics.

    Yes, fear has a playbook. And while the political environment has changed importantly in the last decade, many of the same dynamics still apply, or...