Dean Nielsen, since starting his political career in 1992 working for Bill Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign, has worked on\u00a0political campaigns in 35\u00a0states on every level of campaign, from school board to Congress to Governor to President\u00a0as well as advising candidates and political parties in Eastern Europe.\u00a0He is a leading expert in direct mail, political trainings, social pressure campaigns, data informed voter contact programs and other cutting edge campaign tactics.<\/p>\n
At CN4, Dean Nielsen has helped hundreds of candidates and organizations find success at the ballot box. He frequently runs campaigns on behalf of groups such as SEIU, AFSCME, Conservation Voters, AFL-CIO, UFCW and other progressive organizations to help elect candidates such as Governors Phil Murphy (NJ), Tony Evers (WI), Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Jay Inslee (WA), members of Congress and state legislators.<\/p>\n
In previous careers, he was National Political Director for Progressive Majority, an organization that recruits, trains and elects progressive champions. \u00a0He also worked in Washington DC for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, building and directing a federal grassroots and grasstops lobbying program for legislation on FDA regulation of tobacco products, clean indoor air, tobacco tax increases, appropriations to the Department of Justice tobacco lawsuit and other issues.<\/p>\n
He founded the Institute for a Democratic Future (IDF) and served as its first Executive Director. He currently serves on the boards of Fuse Washington\u00a0and IDF.<\/p>\n
Email: Dean@CN4Partners.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":620,"template":"","better_featured_image":{"id":620,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1400,"height":800,"file":"2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-150x150.jpg","width":"150","height":"150","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-300x171.jpg","width":"300","height":"171","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-300x171.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-1024x585.jpg","width":"1024","height":"585","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-1024x585.jpg"},"feature-small":{"file":"Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-263x150.jpg","width":"263","height":"150","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-263x150.jpg"},"feature-medium":{"file":"Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-452x258.jpg","width":"452","height":"258","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-452x258.jpg"},"feature-large":{"file":"Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-656x375.jpg","width":"656","height":"375","mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3-656x375.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"6.7","credit":"Lincoln Potter","camera":"NIKON D750","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1575635845","copyright":"Lincoln Potter","focal_length":"78","iso":"280","shutter_speed":"0.0111111111111","title":"","orientation":"1"}},"post":101,"source_url":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Dean-Nielsen-CN4-Partners-22-copy-3.jpg"},"acf":{"title":"Founding Partner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-api\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-api"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-api\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-api\/101\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cn4partners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}