Twenty year track-record of providing strategic communications counsel to U.S. senators, cabinet secretaries, and technology, healthcare, and higher education leaders.

Jason has taken on some of the toughest challenges at the local, national and global levels including childhood blindness in El Salvador, ending homelessness in the United States, combating women's heart disease, and protecting homeowners from the abuses of mortgage servicers.

He was the senior communications adviser for Johns Hopkins University's president and served in the Obama administration for four years as a senior communications advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and led the communications and legislative affairs for the Obama administration’s initiative to end homelessness. Prior to joining the administration, Jason was a senior analyst at Lake Research Partners and the director of communications at Direct Relief International. Jason used his versatile background to support field and communications efforts on multiple political and issue campaigns, including the John Kerry and Barack Obama presidential campaigns, Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester’s campaign, a statewide campaign in California to pass clean energy legislation and a successful referendum in the Republic of Ireland to pass the Treaty of Nice. Jason's previous experience in Washington includes work in foreign policy and communications for Senators Paul Sarbanes and Edward Kennedy, as well as the Peace Corps.

Jason graduated from Northeastern University and earned his Master of Science-Public Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics.