Sam Koppelman | |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Mayday Health Hunterbrook |
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| Relatives | Charles Koppelman (grandfather) |
Sam Hunter Koppelman is an American entrepreneur, author, speechwriter, and journalist. He is the co-founder of Mayday Health and Hunterbrook. [1]
Koppelman was raised in New York City. [1] He graduated from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School before attending Harvard University, where he obtained a degree in government in 2018. [2] While at Harvard, he wrote for The Harvard Crimson, including a controversial op-ed about the final clubs. [1] [3]
After graduating from Harvard, Koppelman wrote speeches for Michael Bloomberg and worked full-time for Fenway Strategies, a communications firm founded by Jon Favreau that Koppelman joined while he was still a student. [4] [5] [6] [7] While at Fenway, Koppelman also co-wrote books with former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and former U.S. solicitor general Neal Katyal including a New York Times best-seller. [8] [9] [10] He worked for Joe Biden's 2020 campaign as a speechwriter. [11] During the Covid-19 pandemic he wrote the newsletter Cooking in Quarantine before founding Mayday Health and Hunterbrook. [12]
After the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, Koppelman founded Mayday Health along with Olivia Raisner and Nathaniel Horwitz, who he met at The Harvard Crimson. The nonprofit provides information on abortion access in the United States. [13] [14] [15]
In 2023, Koppelman and Horwitz co-founded Hunterbrook, an investigate journalism outlet and hedge fund. [1] The newsroom's first investigation focused on alleged fraud at United Wholesale Mortgage. [1] In June 2025, Hunterbrook reported that B-2 bombers had departed an Air Force base in Missouri, hours before the United States bombed nuclear sites in Iran. [16] In September 2025, Koppelman appeared on Pablo Torre Finds Out and launched a podcast on Hunterbrook's investigations with provocateur Caroline Calloway. [17]
Koppelman lives in East Village. [4] While ancestrally Jewish, Koppelman has said he is an atheist. [18] Koppelman is the son of television writer Brian Koppelman and author Amy Koppelman. The 2014 Sony Pictures hack revealed correspondence from Koppelman to Sony CEO and Harvard board member Michael Lynton regarding Koppelman's application, along with a letter of recommendation written by Harvard alum Matt Damon supporting his candidacy (Koppelman's father co-wrote "Rounders" and "Ocean's Thirteen" which featured Damon). [19] [20] [21] [22] Koppelman previously dated actress Maude Apatow and is engaged to Cecily Burge. [4]