Joseph Patrick Lockhart is a spokesman and communications consultant,best known for being the 21st White House Press Secretary during the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton. Previously,he had worked as press secretary for several Democratic politicians,including Walter Mondale,Paul Simon,and Michael Dukakis. Following his work as press secretary in the Clinton administration,he was an advisor to John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign. He subsequently founded and became managing director of the communications consulting firm The Glover Park Group,worked for Facebook from 2011 to 2012,and was executive vice president of communications and public affairs for the NFL from 2016 to 2018.
James Phillip Rubin is an American former diplomat and journalist who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997–2000. He wrote a regular column on foreign affairs for The Sunday Times of London,and has been Diplomatic Counselor to the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) since June 2021.
George Robert Stephanopoulos is an American television host,political commentator,and former Democratic advisor. Stephanopoulos currently is a coanchor with Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan on Good Morning America,and host of This Week, ABC's Sunday morning current events news program.
Federico Fabian Peña is an American politician and attorney who served as the 12th United States secretary of transportation from 1993 to 1997 and the 8th United States secretary of energy from 1997 to 1998,during the presidency of Bill Clinton. He previously served as the 41st mayor of Denver from 1983 to 1991.
David Plouffe is an American political and business strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign. He was the senior advisor to Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant,he was a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media,which he joined in 2000.
Mark Corallo is an American political communications and public relations professional,who is the co-founder and co-principal of Corallo Comstock. A Republican,he formed Corallo Media Strategies,a public relations firm. He was the communications director for the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General John Ashcroft,and later became a senior adviser with The Ashcroft Group.
Stephanie Cutter is an American political consultant. She served as an advisor to President Barack Obama during his first presidential term,and was deputy campaign manager for his 2012 re-election campaign. She previously worked in campaign and communications roles for other prominent Democrats including Ted Kennedy,John Kerry,and Michelle Obama. The New York Times described her as "a popular but polarizing face of [Obama's] campaign",and a "soldier who says the things the candidate can't say."
Philippe I. Reines is an American political consultant. He joined the Department of State as a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton when she became United States Secretary of State in January 2009,and was promoted to deputy assistant secretary of state for strategic communications in 2010.
Howard Wolfson is an American Democratic political strategist. He served as a counselor to the former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg,replacing Kevin Sheekey as Deputy Mayor of New York City for governmental affairs. He currently directs the education program at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Doug Hattaway is an American communications consultant,political advisor,and businessman,currently serving as the founder and CEO of Hattaway Communications,Inc.,a strategic communications firm based in Washington,D.C. Hattaway was a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries,as well as Al Gore’s spokesman during the 2000 United States presidential election. He was reported by The Washington Post to be on a short list of candidates to serve as White House Press Secretary in the Obama administration.
Thomas Edward Donilon is an American lawyer,business executive,and former government official who served as the 22nd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2013. Donilon also worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations. He is now Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute,the firm's global think tank.
Michael C. Donilon is an American attorney and campaign consultant who is a longtime advisor to Joe Biden,the 46th President of the United States. He was the chief strategist of Biden's 2020 presidential campaign and served in the same capacity in the 2024 presidential campaign before Biden dropped out of the race on July 21,2024. He was a senior advisor to Biden during the first three years of his presidency. Prior,Donilon was working as a partner at AKPD Message and Media. Between 2009 and 2013,he served as Counselor to Vice President Biden in the Obama administration. Before his White House appointment,Donilon worked with the vice-presidential candidate to help him prepare for the debates and as a traveling advisor.
Steven J. Ricchetti is an American political aide who last served as a Counselor to the President under President Joe Biden. He was the chairman of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Ricchetti previously served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden during the Obama administration and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Bill Clinton. In between stints in Democratic administrations,Ricchetti has worked as a lobbyist.
On April 4,2011,Barack Obama,the 44th president of the United States,announced his candidacy for re-election as president. On September 5,2012,he again became the nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2012 presidential election. Along with his running mate,Vice President Joe Biden,Obama was opposed in the general election by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney,along with various minor candidates from other parties. The election took place on Tuesday,November 6,2012.
Ben Scott is an American policy researcher and advocate.
Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest is an American political advisor who served as White House press secretary under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. He was Obama's third Press Secretary and the 29th to hold the position. He succeeded Jay Carney as Obama's press secretary,in 2014,and was succeeded by President Donald Trump's first presidential press secretary,Sean Spicer. He is Executive Vice President of Communications and Advertising for United Airlines.
Brian Edward Fallon Jr. is an American political operative. He was the national press secretary for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign,a role he began in March 2015,and was a senior advisor in Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. In 2018,he founded the legal advocacy organization Demand Justice.
Eric Schultz is an American political advisor who served as Deputy White House Press Secretary in the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017. Recognized by Politico as the strategist "White House officials turn to in a crisis to handle communications",Schultz was originally hired at the White House in 2011 to respond to congressional oversight investigations.
Jamal Nkosi Simmons is an American political advisor who formerly served as the communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris from January 2022 to January 2023.
Lorraine Ann Voles is an American political advisor who served as chief of staff to the vice president of the United States under Kamala Harris from 2022 to 2025.
