Daniel H.
Pink
Contibuting
Editor
dpink@fastcompany.com
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Dan Pink
recently left a job he loved -- as the chief speechwriter to
Vice President Al Gore -- to devote himself to writing
articles and books full-time. As Gore's speechwriter, a
position which he held since 1995, he was the lead writer on
all the vice president's major domestic speeches. He was
also a member of Gore's 1996 debate-preparation team, and
cowrote and coproduced A Brief History of the Vice
Presidency, an award-winning, humorous tribute to the
nation's highest office.
Before going to the White
House, Pink served two years as speechwriter and special
assistant to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich. Prior
to joining the Clinton-Gore administration, Pink was an
economic-policy aide in the U.S. Senate and an
issues-and-communications staffer for several senate and
presidential campaigns.
He has also written widely on
politics, technology, pop culture, and the new economy. In
addition to Fast Company, his articles and essays have
appeared in several national newspapers and magazines,
including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the
Chicago Tribune, the Columbia Journalism Review, the
Washington Monthly, and George.
Pink received a BA, with
honors in linguistics, from Northwestern University, where
he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has a JD from Yale Law
School, where he was editor in chief of the Yale Law &
Policy Review.
Pink lives in the American
University section of Washington, DC with his wife, Jessica
Lerner, a U.S. Justice Department trial lawyer, and their
daughter, Sophie.
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