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Rob Stein

Rob Stein is the founder of the Democracy Alliance and co-founder of the Committee on States. An attorney by training, Rob has founded and run several non-profit organizations, was senior strategist to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, was Chief of Staff of the Washington Office of the Clinton-Gore Transition, served as Chief of Staff of the United States Department of Commerce, and was a private equity investor working with dozens of early-stage companies. Rob’s research about the funding, management and overall infrastructure of the conservative movement over the last three decades, and his recruitment of leading progressive strategists, activists and donors, resulted in the formation of the Democracy Alliance, and he co-founded the Committee on States. Rob co-led the “Strengthening Our American Republic” research sponsored by the Fetzer Institute and Stand Together with Carolyn Lukensmeyer. Since 2017, he has been a champion of, and commentator on, cross-partisanship in American culture and politics; and currently advises a diverse range of center-right, center-left and independent cultural and political organizations and leaders.
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    Ode to Ukraine

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    March 15, 2022
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    Stein is an organizational and political strategist who has worked with dozens of for-profit, not-for-profit and political and public sector organizations over the past 50 years. He currently serves as a researcher/writer, consultant and champion of the work of cross-partisan cultural and political organizations and initiatives.

    I know it is difficult to be optimistic in desperate times, but the burdens of healing the world are ours and ours alone - there is no one but us.

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    Actions by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump bookend beginning of a new era, writes Stein.

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    Stein is an organizational and political strategist who has worked with dozens of for-profit, not-for-profit and political and public sector organizations over the past 50 years. He currently serves as a researcher/writer, consultant and champion of the work of cross-partisan cultural and political organizations and initiatives.

    The brutal, unrelenting Russian assault on Ukraine may continue far longer than we can imagine. If and when it finally is constrained by some form of international agreement, the months and years following that fragile understanding will represent a monumental inflection point for humanity and the civilized world.

    There are many ways in which the family of nations will process what has happened, what real and perceived lessons have been learned, and how nation states and international relationships might evolve.

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