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Daniel Munczek Edelman

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Summary
Daniel creates effective economic and climate policy and helps build organizations. At DA, he has led teams working on the New York City Mayor’s Office’s cross-agency priorities, the transition for North Carolina’s new Governor, a philanthropy's strategy for maximizing the impact of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits, and a $200M, 25-city initiative to leverage federal funding to advance climate action and racial equity. Daniel was previously the strategy and operations lead at a startup organization that engages directly impacted communities in policy development and advocacy, and has managed policy and programmatic portfolios across economic and workforce development, climate, criminal justice, and government innovation in several state and local governments. He has written on these issues and DEI in the policy sector in The Nation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and elsewhere.
Education
  • MPA, Domestic Policy, Princeton University
  • MA, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Mississippi
  • BA, Sociology and Spanish, Amherst College
Delivery Experience

Dan has led teams working on the New York City Mayor’s Office’s cross-agency priorities, the transition for North Carolina’s new Governor, a philanthropy's strategy for maximizing the impact of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits, and a $200M, 25-city initiative to leverage federal funding to advance climate action and racial equity.

Other Experience

As the Associate Director of Next100, Daniel supported the policy and advocacy work of 16 rising leaders and helped grow the organization. He also published across several issue areas, including the intersections of climate change and economic opportunity, and how the policy sector’s talent practices can better advance equity. 

As a Senior Advisor in the NYC Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity, Daniel designed, managed, and evaluated numerous programs and initiatives. 

At Harvard’s Government Performance Lab, Daniel worked with state and local governments as the lead consultant on projects focused on criminal justice reform, transportation, government contracting with minority- and women-owned businesses, youth development, and financial innovation.

Daniel began his career as a high school social studies teacher and soccer coach, and then worked at a social services agency.

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