About Dan:
Dan advises companies, advocacy organizations, and trade associations on their highest-stakes communications challenges. His work has included shepherding a clean energy startup through the launch of their first-of-a-kind project, coordinating the opposition to efforts to sell off public lands, and announcing the capitalization of a national green bank. His clients are regularly featured in top-tier media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, and influential trade publications.
Corporate and advocacy leaders turn to Dan as a trusted advisor with a deep understanding of energy and climate policy and a knack for translating complex tech and policy into language that resonates with decisionmakers in Washington and state capitals across the country.He has built deep relationships with reporters across the energy and climate beat, and has coached dozens of CEOs, Ivy League university leadership, nonprofit executive directors, and others on how to handle the toughest interviews.
Dan brings nearly two decades of experience across politics, issue advocacy, and policy communications. He was previously a vice president in the public affairs practice at a national PR firm, serving corporate and nonprofit clients across a wide range of industries. Earlier, he led communications for campaigns on tax fairness, democracy reform, and other issues at the Hub Project, and spent several years at the Economic Policy Institute promoting the work of its economists and researchers. Dan worked in the Obama administration and on the president’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
A graduate of Cornell University, Dan lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children. He has finished the New York Times crossword every day since mid-2020—with only the occasional assist from Google.
Dan’s Recent Publications:
Maryland utility bills are up more than 15% in a year. Governor Wes Moore joins us to talk about his push with PJM, holding data centers accountable, and keeping Maryland's offshore wind projects alive.
As electricity demand surges and states respond with moratoriums, rate classes, and consumption taxes, the fight over data centers is really a fight over whether clean energy wins the AI buildout.
Geothermal has the technology and the demand. What it's missing is a clear path to financing the early, expensive step of proving a site actually works. Mike O'Connor, director of the newly formed Mountain West Geothermal Consortium, explains why that early testing phase is the industry's biggest hurdle, and what the four-state consortium is doing about it.
CEBA CEO Rich Powell on a new $121.2 billion ratepayer cost study, why permitting reform is the single biggest fix for energy prices, and what's driving a record year for corporate clean energy buying.
Picked-up pieces on CERAWeek, permitting reform, the president’s DOA budget, Democrats’ new messaging legislation, data center developers’ preventable disaster and more.
