Herbie Ziskend
{{Short description|American political advisor}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Herbie Ziskend
| office = White House Principal Deputy Communications Director
| president = Joe Biden
| 1blankname = Director
| 1namedata = Ben LaBolt
| term_start = August 2024
| term_end = January 2025
| predecessor = Kristen Orthman
| office1 = White House Deputy Communications Director
| 1blankname1 = President
| 1namedata1 = Joe Biden
| term_end1 = August 2024
| office2 = Senior Advisor for Communications for the Vice President
| 1blankname2 = Vice President
| 1namedata2 = Kamala Harris
| predecessor2 = Symone Sanders {{efn|As Senior Advisor & Chief Spokesperson for the Vice President}}
| successor2 = Stephanie Young{{efn|As Senior Advisor for Messaging & Outreach for the Vice President}}
| office3 = Deputy Communications Director for the Vice President
| 1blankname3 = Vice President
| 1namedata3 = Kamala Harris
| term_start3 = January 20, 2021
| term_end3 = March 2022
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 = Rachel Palermo
| education = Cornell University (BA),
| party = Democratic
| successor = Kaelan Dorr (Deputy)
| successor1 = Himself (Principal Deputy)
}}
Herbie Ziskend is an American political advisor who served as White House Principal Deputy Communications Director for President Joe Biden.{{cite news| url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/white-house-plans-staff-moves-aides-switch-harris-campaign-rcna166906|title=White House plans staff moves as aides switch to Harris campaign| author1=Monica Alba|access-date=2021-01-16| work=NBC News| date=August 16, 2024}} He previously served as a senior communications advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris from 2021 to 2022,{{Cite news | last=Pager | first=Tyler |title=White House moves staffers to finalize makeover of press operation |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/25/white-house-moves-staffers-finalize-makeover-press-operation/ |access-date=22 November 2024 | work=Washington Post |date=25 August 2022}} and as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.
Education
Ziskend earned a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.{{cite journal|last1=Ziskend|first1=Herbie|title=America Is Not in Decline, and Startups Are an Important Reason Why: A Case Study of Albuquerque, New Mexico (Innovations Case Narrative: Village Capital and Revolution LLC, the "Rise of the Rest")|journal=Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization|year=2016|volume=11|issue=1–2|pages=80–87|doi=10.1162/inov_a_00249|s2cid=57565914|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web |last1=Peters |first1=Gerhard | last2=Woolley |first2=John T. | date=January 8, 2021 |title=Press Release - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of the Office of the Vice President
| website=The American Presidency Project | url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/press-release-president-elect-joe-biden-and-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-announce-5 | access-date=2024-11-22}}
Career
= Obama administration =
Ziskend was a campaign staffer on the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign and later served as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.{{cite news|last1=Parker|first1=Ashley|title=All the Obama 20-Somethings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/magazine/02obamastaff-t.html|website=The New York Times|date=30 April 2010 |access-date=17 December 2016}}
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Ziskend, Eric Lesser and Arun Chaudhary organized a seder during the campaign.{{cite web|last1=Girsky|first1=Josh|title=After Nine Years, Cornell Alumni to Lead Last White House Seder|url=http://cornellsun.com/2016/04/28/after-9-years-cornell-alumni-to-lead-last-white-house-seder/|website=Cornell Sun|date=28 April 2016 |access-date=17 December 2016}} The tradition followed the Obama administration into the White House as the official White House Passover Seder.{{cite news|last1=Eilperin|first1=Juliet|title=Passover Seder: One last time for an Obama White House tradition|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/passover-seder-a-white-house-tradition-one-last-time-for-the-obamas/2016/04/28/bd82dace-0cbd-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=17 December 2016}}
After leaving the White House, Ziskend worked as chief of staff to Arianna Huffington at the Huffington Post Media Group in New York City, and as the director of public policy and rise of rest investments at Revolution LLC, an investment firm led by AOL co-founder Steve Case. Ziskend also worked as a senior vice president at SKDKnickerbocker.{{Cite web|last1=Palmer|first1=Anna|last2=Sherman|first2=Jake|title=POLITICO Playbook: Cuomo says 'hatred exploding' after stabbing at Hanukkah gathering|url=https://politi.co/2QrIpBi|access-date=2020-11-11|website=POLITICO|date=29 December 2019 |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Joe's age and experience gives him helpful perspective: Day 53 out of 100 days of Loving Joe Biden|url=https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/9/3/1973894/-Joe-s-age-and-experience-gives-him-helpful-perspective-Day-53-out-of-100-days-of-Loving-Joe-Biden|access-date=2020-11-11|website=Daily Kos}}
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