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Adam Kovacevich | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Lobbyist |
| Political party | Democratic Party [1] |
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Adam Kovacevich is an American lobbyist and the CEO and founder of Chamber of Progress. He formerly worked as a Google executive and Democratic aide. [2] [3]
Kovacevich is the son of John J. Kovacevich, a California agriculture businessman who owned the 650-acre non-union Kovacevich Vineyards outside Bakersfield, California. [4] [5] He graduated from Harvard University. [4] [1]
While at Harvard, Kovacevich befriended Tom Cotton, and would later support several of the Arkansas Republican's political campaigns. [6] Kovacevich said of Cotton, “I support him as a friend, but that doesn’t mean we agree on policies.” [7]
Around 1997, as a student, Kovacevich lobbied Harvard to end a ban on serving grapes that had been organized to express solidarity with a 1986 United Farm Workers grape boycott. [8] [9] Supporters of the ban from National Council of La Raza opposed Kovacevich's efforts, saying the grape ban was about respecting the human rights of farmworkers. [8] Kovacevich was successful in having the Harvard grape ban overturned. [8] [10] [11] In 2000, following the vote by Stanford students to overturn their university's grape ban, the United Farm Workers announced a permanent end to its grape boycott. [12] [13]
After graduating from Harvard, Kovacevich worked in Democratic politics. He served as spokesperson for then-congressman Cal Dooley, [14] [15] co-founder of the moderate New Democrat Coalition. He also worked for Senator Joe Lieberman in the United States Senate and on his 2004 presidential campaign [16] [17] and for Inez Tenenbaum on her 2004 campaign for the United States Senate. [18] [19]
In 2007, he went to work for Google, where he spent 12 years, eventually becoming senior director of public policy. [20] He launched Google’s public policy blog. [21]
His op-eds, on tech issues, have appeared in media such as the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, [22] The Philadelphia Inquirer, [23] and Fortune, [24] and he has appeared on TV channels such as Cheddar, [25] C-SPAN, [26] and Bloomberg Television. [27]
Kovacevich describes himself as a progressive, though others have disputed this assertion. [1] [6] Speaking of Kovacevich, Mike Lux, board chair of American Family Voices, said in 2021 that "there is no evidence that this guy is progressive". [6]
During his time at Google, Kovacevich personally donated to both Democratic and Republican candidates. [6] [28]
In 2021, Kovacevich expressed support for President Biden’s proposed tax increase on corporations. [29]
According to Kovacevich, he lives in Arlington, Virginia, and is married with three children. [1]
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