Bios

For the past 15 years Peter Loge has been advising candidates, elected officials and advocacy organizations at all levels.

In June of 2009, Peter temporarily suspended Milo Public Affairs to spend six months as a Senior Policy Advisor to U.S. Representative Steve Kagen, M.D. (D-WI). Peter's primary responsibilities were to advise Representative Kagen on health care reform and to launch the Congressional Business Owners Caucus, an organization of 50+ Democratic members of the House who have owned businesses. With health care reform off the House floor and the Caucus up and running, Peter returned to Milo in November, 2009.

Prior to launching Milo Public Affairs LLC in 2007, Peter was a Senior Vice President M+R Strategic Services, a national public affairs and political consulting firm. At M+R Peter directed the Media Relations team and provided strategic counsel to a wide array of clients including the Save Darfur Coalition, Human Rights First, American Farmland Trust, and many others. Prior to joining M+R Peter served as the first Director of The Justice Project, the organization that led the fight for the passage of the Innocence Protection Act, which President Bush signed into law only days before the 2004 election. Peter has extensive expertise in both communications and political strategy including serving as the Chief of Staff, Communications Director, and Campaign Manager to U.S. Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA), Director of Constituent Services to former U.S. Representative Sam Coppersmith (D-AZ), and Deputy to the Chief of Staff to the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). Peter lectures regularly on politics and lobbying (several of his talks have been broadcast on C-SPAN) and teaches courses in language and politics at George Washington University. He has been quoted in local and national media, has appeared as commentator on XM/Sirius Satellite radio, and is featured in the award-winning political documentary Split: A Divided America. His writing has appeared in the Drake Law Review, the edited volume Wounds that Do Not Bind: Victim Perspectives on the Death Penalty, The Journal of the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors, and The Hill newspaper.

Peter’s wide-ranging career includes: serving as the President of the Emerson College Alumni Association; holding the elected position of Vice Chair of the Maricopa County Democratic Party (Phoenix, AZ); serving as director of forensics at Clemson University; being an award-winning artist; appearing as a political satirist on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and the BBC World Service; serving as board chair of DC SCORES and serving on the board of United for DC (DC United's charitable foundation); serving on the Board of the Copyright Alliance; helping found and serve on the board of NEXT PAC; serving on the board of Good Works PAC; working as a Regional Field Director at the Concord Coalition; and working as a reporter at The Business Journal in Phoenix, AZ.

Peter is a graduate of Emerson College and holds graduate degrees from Syracuse University and Arizona State University.

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