Board of Directors

Founder, William B. Wachtel

Mr. Wachtel is the founding partner of Wachtel & Masyr, a law firm comprised of approximately 30 attorneys specializing in domestic and international business transactions and litigations. He is also the founder of the progressive Drum Major Institute, originally the Drum Major Foundation, established by his father Harry Wachtel. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont (B.A. 1975, magna cum laude) and Columbia University (J.D., 1979); Phi Beta Kappa; Harlan Fiske Scholar. Mr. Wachtel was the legislative assistant to United States Senator P.J. Leahy from 1974-75. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Bar Association.

Andrew Young

Ambassador Young has held a wide range of leadership positions. He was a top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the civil rights movement before being elected to three terms as Representative for the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed him as the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Young then served two terms as Mayor of the City of Atlanta and was a Co-Chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. He is Chairman of the Southern Africa Enterprise development Fund, Co-Chairman of GoodWorks International, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Drum Major Institute. The U.S. Secretary of State recently appointed him as a member of the National Security Council Study Group.

Norman J. Ornstein

Mr. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also serves as an election analyst for CBS News and writes a weekly column called “Congress Inside Out” for Roll Call newspaper. His campaign finance working group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major law, known as McCain/Feingold, that reformed the campaign financing system. He is also co-directing a multi-year effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign Legal Center and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Mr. Ornstein was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many books include The Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, both with Thomas E. Mann; and Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It, with John H. Makin. The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and What Can Be Done about It, co-authored by Thomas E. Mann, is published by Oxford University Press.

Staff

Jacob Soboroff, Executive Director

Jacob is a Los Angeles native and the host of our documentary video blog. He moved to New York to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, but he graduated from the politics department where he also received his MA in political theory and philosophy. He was a part time advance man for NYC Michael Bloomberg and briefly played the same role for presidential candidate Howard Dean. After moving back to Los Angeles, he took up video blogging for LA Observed, where he contributes reports about Los Angeles news, media and sense of place. Jacob is also a contributing reporter on the new PBS series WIRED SCIENCE, a production of KCET Los Angeles in association with Wired magazine. E-mail him at jacob-at-whytuesday-dot-org.

Barnett Zitron, Strategic Director

Barnett is a native New Yorker and attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx. He studied at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where he concentrated on City Planning. After graduating, Barnett remained in New York to work for the Empire State Development Corporation in the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, and currently aspires for a professional architecture degree. E-mail him at barnett-at-whytuesday-dot-org.

Thomas Macker, Director of Photography and Field Producer

Thomas, a Los Angeles native, earned his BFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004. Since graduation, he has worked in various fields of production, serving as researcher, set designer, and editor for commercials, music videos and feature documentaries in both New York and Los Angeles. Currently residing in Los Angeles, Thomas recently attended the Harold Arts Residency and will be curating a related exhibit at the gallery in Chicago. He also works as an artistic and freelance commercial photographer. Click here for Thomas’ website.

Advisory Board

Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Executive Director, Drum Major Institute

Sam Bell
Director of Advocacy, Genocide Intervention Network

Jeff Berman
GM for Video, and SVP for Public Affairs, MySpace

John Bonifaz
Founder, National Voting Rights Institute, and Legal Director, Voter Action

Bill Bradley, Why Tuesday? Honorary Co-Chair
Former United States Senator

Jim Brayton
President, Long Trail Media

Lee Brenner
Executive Producer of Political Programming, and Director of IMPACT, MySpace

James Carmichael
Strategic Initiatives Manager, Boston Community Capital

Steve Grove
Editor, YouTube News & Politics

Harold Kaplan
Consultant

Jack Kemp, Why Tuesday? Honorary Co-Chair
Former United States Representative, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Martin L. King, III
CEO, Realizing the Dream

Mary Lisio
Vice President, Actual Reality Pictures

Kenneth B. Mehlman
Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld LLP, and Former Chairman, Republican National Committee

Nicco Mele
Partner, EchoDitto

Andrea Ross
Agent, Creative Artists Agency

Steve Sugerman
President, Sugerman Communications Group

Sara Taylor
Former White House Director of Political Affairs

Sean Treglia
President, The Treglia Group, and President, Los Angeles City Ethics Commission

Joe Trippi
President, Trippi & Associates

Madeline Wachtel

Tova Andrea Wang
Vice President for Research, Common Cause

Gideon Yago
Correspondent, CBS and MTV News

Andrew Young III
President, Young Solutions

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