Herbie Ziskend

Herbie Ziskend is a former White House advisor and one of the founders of the Obama White House Passover Seder, the first presidential Seder in U.S. history.[2] Ziskend was an early campaign staffer on President Obama's first White House Campaign and later served as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009-2011.[3]

Herbie Ziskend, Senator Eric Lesser, and President Obama [1]

During the 2008 presidential campaign, three young staffers to then-Senator Obama- Eric Lesser, Arun Chaudhary, and Herbie Ziskend- organized an impromptu Seder with Obama and a small group of staffers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.[4] President Obama said it was "a tradition we have looked forward to each year since hosting the first-ever White House Seder in 2009." [5]

Personal life

After leaving the White House, Ziskend worked as Chief of Staff to Arianna Huffington at the Huffington Post Media Group in New York City, and as the Director of Public Policy and Rise of Rest Investments at Revolution LLC- an investment firm led by AOL co-founder Steve Case.

Ziskend consulted for Netflix on Season 2 of the show House of Cards.[6]

Ziskend has a B.A. from Cornell University and is a Dubin Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.[7]

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References
  1. Miller, Joshua. "A Passover tradition for the White House". Boston Globe.
  2. Eilperin, Juliet. "Passover Seder: One last time for an Obama White House tradition". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  3. Parker, Ashley. "All the Obama 20-Somethings". NYtimes.com. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  4. Girsky, Josh. "After Nine Years, Cornell Alumni to Lead Last White House Seder". Cornell Sun. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  5. The White House Office of the Press Secretary. "Statement by the President on Passover". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  6. "House of Cards Miscellaneous Crew". IMBD. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  7. Ziskend, Herbie. "America Is Not in Decline, and Startups Are an Important Reason Why: A Case Study of Albuquerque, New Mexico (Innovations Case Narrative: Village Capital and Revolution LLC, the "Rise of the Rest")". MIT Press Journals.
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