Obama Advisor Karen Kornbluh

WHO IS OBAMA'S BRAIN?
[SOURCE: The Washington Note, AUTHOR: Steven Clemons]
[Commentary] Observations about a couple of Sen Barak Obama's key aides. One is Karen Kornbluh, Sen Obama's Policy Director on his Senate staff who has had a hand in many of Obama's most provocative and interesting policy initiatives. She worked as Director of the Work and Family Program at the New America Foundation as one of my best colleagues -- and previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of Treasury under Robert Rubin and also as Director of Legal and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Federal Communications Commission. She also worked for Senator John Kerry (D-MA) on the Senate Commerce Committee. Karen Kornbluh is known in DC for many things -- but the two most important contributions she has made are on one hand one of the most articulate calls for national investment in broadband connectivity and on the other for her framing of the "juggler family" and as well for her famous essay, "The Mommy Tax."
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002673.php

See also --

* Disconnect: How Bush and Michael Powell are killing the New Economy. And how to turn it around.
Karen Kornbluh (October 2001)
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0110.kornbluh.html