Bridgeland served as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council,Assistant to the President of the United States,and first director of the USA Freedom Corps after 9/11 under President George W. Bush,and a Member of the White House Council for Community Solutions under President Barack Obama.
Bridgeland worked in the White House from 2001 to 2003,first as deputy assistant to the president under George W. Bush and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council,then as assistant to the president and director of the USA Freedom Corps.[2] In his work overseeing more than $1 billion in domestic and international service programs in the aftermath of September 11,2001,former senator Harris Wofford described him as "one of the most impressive people I've seen in public life in recent times".[3]
In 2004,he served as a teaching fellow at Harvard Kennedy School,where he offered a seminar on presidential decision making.[4] From 2012 to 2015,he served as the co-chair of the Leadership Council of the Franklin Project,a policy program of the Aspen Institute that sought to make a year of service a common opportunity and expectation for young Americans.[5]
In 2020,Bridgeland co-founded The Covid Collaborative,a bi-partisan organization which assembled a diverse and comprehensive team of leading experts in health,education,and the economy to shape the work of the American response to the COVID pandemic by developing consensus recommendations and engaging with state and local leaders across America on their implementation –"ensuring that our efforts are truly from the nation,for the nation". Alongside a board consisting of an impressive group of American citizens,retired politicians and other public servants,Bridgeland currently serves as the organization's CEO.[promotion?]
Bridgeland is also the long-serving president and CEO of Civic Enterprises,a public policy firm in Washington,D.C.,[1] and vice-chair of Malaria No More,[6] a non-profit launched at the White House Summit on Malaria[7] which aims to end malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. He has also conducted research on America's "Silent Epidemic" of high school drop-out.[8] His report prompted the TIME cover story Dropout Nation, and two Oprah Winfrey shows on the topic. Bridgeland also led the National Summit on America's Silent Epidemic with the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation,the National Governors Association,TIME Magazine and MTV.
He currently serves as a board member on the Public Advisory Board at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.[9]
Published works
He is the author of Heart of the Nation:Volunteering and America's Civic Spirit (Rowman &Littlefield,2012).[10]
Personal life
He lives with his wife,Maureen,in McLean,Virginia. They have three children.[1] An accomplished tennis player in his youth,he enjoyed a successful amateur career and played on the varsity tennis team at Harvard College.
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