David Plouffe Joins Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced that David Plouffe will join the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. He will be leading the policy and advocacy effort. Whereas Ken Mehlman will lead the policy advisory board.

David Plouffe has been the manager of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. He also has great experience building movements as part of companies like Uber.

David Plouffe Joins Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Lead the Policy and Advocacy Effort

Like David, Ken also has a long history in both the public and private domains. He ran the Republican National Committee, was campaign manager for George W. Bush’s presidential campaign, and today is a member at KKR where he collaborates with companies all over the world.

Ken Mehlman will Lead the Policy Advisory Board

David and Ken have run campaigns for different parties but have also come together to work on problems like marriage equality.

Zuckerberg while talking about the Initiative added that,

“Our approach at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is to bring engineering to social change. We build tools to bring personalized learning into more schools and help scientists cure all diseases in our children’s lifetime. Part of creating sustainable social change is also helping to build movements around these issues — to fight for more science funding and better education for all children.”