As VP of External Affairs, Adam oversees business development, communications, and partnerships for Andela. He joins Andela from Microsoft, where he worked in corporate strategy. Previously, he was founding Executive Director of Digital Promise, a bipartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to spur digital innovation in education. In that capacity,. Adam built a national coalition of school district leaders committed to innovation and forged partnerships with foundations and companies from the Gates Foundation and Carnegie Corporation to Apple and Intel.. Before Digital Promise, Adam was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Speechwriter for President Barack Obama. He was a speechwriter for Barack Obama for four and a half years, starting as the second speechwriter on the 2008 presidential campaign. Adam also assisted President Kennedy’s advisor Theodore C. Sorensen on his 2008 New York Times-bestselling memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History.. Adam is a graduate of Princeton University and the London School of Economics, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is a member of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s Board of Directors and its Profile in Courage Award Committee, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His media appearances include CNN and Bloomberg TV and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker. Adam was born and raised in New York.
