Margot Friedman, J.D. brings nearly 20 years of experience in strategic communications, media relations, speechwriting, lobbying, and campaign management to Dupont Circle Communications. She specializes in using strategic communications to advance public policy agendas, build field efforts, and support fundraising goals for nonprofit organizations and progressive elected officials.

Ms. Friedman has held senior positions in some of the nation's leading advocacy organizations. As Vice President for Communications at the National Women's Law Center, Ms. Friedman:

• Designed strategic communications initiatives that made frequent headlines in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Associated Press, and shaped public opinion on a broad range of issues of concern to women and low-income families, including education, health and reproductive rights, family economic security, employment discrimination, and judicial nominations;
  
  
• Led the media relations operation that was essential to defeating the Bush Administration's attempt to gut Title IX protections for female students. This success was profiled in a Packard Foundation-funded study of best practices in strategic communications;
  
  
• Secured favorable profiles of the Center's leaders in The New York Times and The Washington Post; and
  
  
• Wrote speeches for celebrities such as Geena Davis and Holly Hunter and CEOs at the organization's million dollar fundraising dinner.

Previously, Ms. Friedman served as Deputy Director of Media Relations at People For the American Way, where she provided communications support for First Amendment litigation. In 1998, she ran the referendum campaign on same-gender marriage in Hawaii for the Human Rights Campaign, which included large-scale press events and fundraisers, field operations with 1,500 volunteers, and one million dollars in television advertising.

In addition to her national experience, Ms. Friedman has worked on the state and local levels to increase the effectiveness of leaders and their organizations. Ms. Friedman served as counsel to the Massachusetts Senate, where she built coalitions and drafted 14 bills signed into law, including hate crimes and juvenile justice reform. She ran winning campaigns that sent candidates to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Cambridge City Council. In 1985, Ms. Friedman co-founded a nonprofit agency that trained and organized crime watch and court-monitoring groups in Boston's low-income neighborhoods.

Ms. Friedman began her career as a litigator at Nutter, McClennen & Fish, a large Boston law firm, where her pro bono work included the defense of a man on death row in Alabama. She graduated with honors from Boston College Law School and Tufts University.