Gear up for General Election 2024 Part Two, folks! Joining us for this meeting is Dan Schnur. Dan is a Professor at the University of California – Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy, and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications, where he teaches courses in politics, communications and leadership. He has been teaching courses in politics, communications and leadership at UC-Berkeley since 1996 and at USC since 2004. Dan has also taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University and George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.

He also hosts a weekly webinar for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council Town Hall, called “Politics In the Time of Coronavirus” on Thursdays at 11 AM Pacific time. Dan writes regularly for the Allsides political website, and has been published regularly in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He is the founder of the USC/LA Times statewide political poll. Previously, Dan worked on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns as one of California’s leading political strategists. He served as the national Director of Communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain and was the chief media spokesman for California Governor Pete Wilson.

Dan has been an advisor to the William & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Broad Education Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the James Irvine Foundation, the Public Policy Institute of California and the Stuart Foundation on a variety of K-12 education and college and workforce preparedness efforts.