Steve Rabinowitz

Steve Rabinowitz is President of RabinowitzDorf Communications. A seasoned media consultant, publicist and political event planner, Steve served former President Bill Clinton as Director of Design and Production for the White House. As such, Steve designed and produced all of the President's public events in Washington and oversaw the press coverage of those and others outside the capital. His focus was with an eye toward how these events would appear on television news programs and
in U.S. and foreign newspapers. Serving in similar positions in the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign and the presidential transition, Steve spent nearly two years traveling full-time candidate, President-elect and President Clinton during Clinton's many foreign and domestic travels.

Steve has served as a U.S. Senate communications director and press aide. He has guided the entire communications operation of a Senate office, including its press, scheduling and advance, political speechwriting and newsletter functions. He has intimate experience in
the workings of Congressional press offices and their relationship with reelection campaigns and interest groups.

Steve is also a founding partner in the high-tech media firm QRS Newmedia. QRS was created to advance the very latest in targeted media strategies to its high-profile political, corporate and government clients. The firm provided millions of dollars of highly targeted satellite TV and radio feeds, digital photos, web streaming and
automated phone messages to, among others, the Clinton-Gore '96 re-election campaign, last cycle's Gore-Lieberman effort, the Democratic National Committee and John Kerry's current campaign for president.

Steve first came to Washington in 1975 to work on the presidential campaign of his local Congressman, Mo Udall. He would return to work on the national staffs of nine U.S. presidential campaigns and has held various positions on countless other campaigns for every kind of political office. He has a deep knowledge of campaign politics dating back twenty-five years.

Steve has been a frequent lecturer and trainer for the DNC, EMILY's List and for other Democratic Party and progressive organizations, as well as for corporate America - often speaking on the modern use and influence
of broadcast media and technology on and by American political campaigns, and on the staging of effective media events. He continued to consult the White House, as well as many departments throughout the Clinton Administration and others on a variety of such events throughout the 90's.

And Steve also regularly trains young political press aides around the country how to better do their jobs. He has organized every national Democratic communications training since 1996, writing all their curricula and serving as their lead trainer. Steve is an author of the DNC's 1995 campaign training manual Technology, a guide to the political use of office and press and communications technology, and the editor of the new 2004 Communications training manual.

Here and abroad, Steve has led numerous media trainings and lectured both government and opposition leaders from countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. And several years ago, Steve taught two elite undergraduate classes in political communications as a adjunct professor
at the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. He also guest lectured graduate students at Johns Hopkins University where he will teach a similar class this fall.

Steve Rabinowitz has long studied political science and journalism with a special interest in public opinion and voter behavior and in the relationship between politics and the media. He now enjoys an excellent working relationship with the major television networks, the international photo wire services and with the largest news organizations in the world, including a personal familiarity with the majority of leading Washington-based journalists. He has, for more than fifteen years, been a contributing analyst to The Hotline, the daily briefing on American politics.

Steve is married to Laurie Moskowitz, the former Coordinated Campaign Director at the DNC and a partner in the grassroots and field strategy firm FieldWorks. They live in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, DC with their young sons Jake and Sammy and their golden retriever Henry.