National Political Advisory Board

JOHN KENNETH "KEN" BLACKWELL, Member

Ken Blackwell's public service includes terms as mayor of Cincinnati, an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, as well as Ohio treasurer and secretary of state. Blackwell is on the board of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and is a senior fellow for family empowerment at the Family Research Council, as well as the Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow for public policy at the Buckeye Institute in Columbus, Ohio. He is a visiting fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the American Civil Rights Union. He serves on boards of the Club for Growth, National Taxpayers Union and Pastors Retreat Network. Blackwell is also the chairman for the Coalition for a Conservative Majority, and a member of the National Rifle Association's Public Affairs Committee.

RICH DAVIS, Member

Rich Davis is a partner in Dixon/Davis Media Group, a full-service strategic communications company and advertising agency serving Democratic candidates, campaigns and causes. In just the past six years, DDMG has directed winning television, radio and strategic communications campaigns to elect U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill, Mark Udall, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jeff Merkley and Kay Hagan. DDMG has also produced winning Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee independent expenditure campaigns that helped elect U.S. Senators Max Baucus, Ben Nelson, Mark Pryor and Joe Manchin. DDMG was a key member of the Obama for President media team, creating national advertising and overseeing Obama's TV and radio campaigns in the battleground states of Florida, Virginia and North Carolina.

STEVE GRAND, Member

Steve Grand is president of Wilson-Grand Communications and has been a consultant, strategist, producer, director and writer for 25 years. He has produced more than 600 TV ads and longer-format films. Grand has helped elect a dozen governors, 25 members of the U.S. House and Senate, and hundreds of state legislators, and has advised numerous corporations and organizations. He has worked in 42 states and seven foreign countries. Grand received his undergraduate degree from Harvard, magna cum laude, and has earned two master's degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on political metaphor. Grand also has formal training from the University of Michigan Survey Research Center.

ANNA GREENBERG, Member

Anna Greenberg is a leading pollster and an expert in survey research methodology, with nearly 15 years of experience. Since joining Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in 2001, Greenberg has worked with many elected officials and a wide range of NGOs and advocacy groups. Her areas of expertise include women and politics, LGBT rights, religion and politics, healthcare policy and drug policy reform. Greenberg is an active participant in the advanced analytics community; she leads the company's advances in micro-targeting and understanding the impact of social media on public opinion.

LARRY MCCARTHY, Member

Larry McCarthy is a writer, communications consultant and president of McCarthy Hennings Media, Inc. In 2010, McCarthy created the winning media for U.S. Senators Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire and Mark Kirk in Illinois. McCarthy has also created more than 200 issue ads, including the year's most widely praised ad, "Chinese Professor." Despite dozens of attack ads from outside groups and a self-funding opponent, McCarthy helped Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell win a decisive victory for his fifth Senate term.

MICHAEL MEEHAN, Member

Michael Meehan is president and co-founder of Blue Line Strategic Communications and a senior vice president at Virilion. His political experience includes his leadership in dozens of Congressional and Senate races in more than 25 states, two U.S. presidential campaigns and selective political efforts in Europe and the Caribbean. Meehan has been at the epicenter of the communications and policy spheres, bringing clear and concise successes from the combative court of Capitol Hill to the crucial priority policy issues concerning companies, foundations, trade associations and nonprofits.

CLETA MITCHELL, Member

Cleta Mitchell is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's political law practice. With more than 30 years of experience in law, politics and public policy, Mitchell advises corporations, nonprofit and issue organizations, candidates, campaigns and individuals on state and federal campaign finance law, election law and compliance issues related to lobbying, ethics and financial disclosure. Mitchell practices before the Federal Election Commission, the ethics committees of the U.S. House and Senate, and similar state and local enforcement bodies and agencies.

PAUL TEWES, Member

Paul Tewes is well known as one the foremost political operatives in the country, having spent almost 15 years developing and implementing successful candidate and issue campaigns. In 2007-8, Tewes served as the Iowa state director of the Obama for America campaign, culminating with a win that launched his historical campaign. After the Iowa caucuses, Tewes directed national party operations. In that role, Tewes oversaw a multimillion-dollar budget and was instrumental in putting together the blueprint for President Obama's organizational efforts in the general election.the largest effort of its kind in U.S. history.

CHRIS WILSON, Member

Chris Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world's leading and most credible public opinion research and research-based strategic consultants. He has conducted thousands of public opinion surveys for hundreds of candidates, companies and political organizations. Wilson is the former global director of research for Weber Shandwick International, the largest PR firm in the world at the time. He is a lecturer on the science of measuring corporate reputation at the Stern School of Business at New York University and the Price School of Business at the University of Oklahoma.