It’s All in the Delivery: Crafting the U.S. President’s Communications and Getting America’s Buy-In: A talk with Obama’s former speechwriter, Adam Frankel '03 | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Photo of Adam P. Frankel, Obama's former speechwriter

Date & Time Apr 05 2021 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Location Zoom webinar

Department Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Speaker(s)

Adam Frankel ’03

Audience Open to the Public, Registration Required

Adam P. Frankel ’03 served as senior speechwriter for President Obama from the early days of the 2008 presidential campaign through Obama’s first term in the White House. Upon leaving the White House, he was appointed founding executive director of a national education nonprofit, Digital Promise, and later joined PepsiCo, where he was vice president of corporate and executive communications for then-chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi. Adam is also a senior adviser at Emerson Collective, and sits on the board of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Library’s Profile in Courage Award selection committee. His first book, "The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing," was called “astonishingly beautiful and profoundly moving” by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Adam is a graduate of Princeton University and the London School of Economics, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Frankel will be joined in conversation with Julian Zelizer, the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton Julian Zelizer