CEO + Partner
Ben joined Fenway way back when it was founded in 2013. Today, he serves as its CEO and managing partner.
Over the course of his time here, he has written for principals at some of the highest levels of politics, and helped leaders of all kinds find their voice and use it for good.
In 2024, Ben advised the Harris-Walz campaign on speechwriting and served as chief speechwriter for Gov. Tim Walz. He was also a manager of the writers’ room at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
In 2023, Ben served as a Senior Advisor at the White House, working on strategic communications around implementing President Biden’s economic and clean energy agenda.
In 2020, Ben was part of the speechwriting team on the Biden-Harris campaign, including running the speechwriting operation for Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, and campaign surrogates. Earlier in the primary campaign, he also served as director of speechwriting for Rep. Beto O’Rourke.
In 2018, leading up to a wave of Democratic victories in the midterm elections, Ben was chief political speechwriter for then-Vice President Joe Biden.
In 2016, Ben worked at Hillary for America, including as a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton, chief speechwriter for Tim Kaine, director of surrogate speechwriting, and the campaign’s representative in the writer’s room at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Prior to Fenway, Ben worked at the research and polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, advising a number of candidates and campaigns around the world. He also served at the White House at the National Economic Council in the Obama administration.
You can check out his writing at Crooked Media and He has lectured at the Yale Politics Initiative and holds a B.A. in government from Dartmouth College. Ben lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Shana, and their rescue foxhound, Sasha.