User Profile for Jeff Blodgett (jblodgett)

Bio: Jeff Blodgett, the executive director of Wellstone Action, has over 25 years of experience in community organizing and political management. Jeff trains, teaches, and writes extensively on political skills, public management and leadership. Jeff was a student of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone at Carleton College and began his career as a community organizer, working with hard-pressed family farmers during the 1980s farm crisis. He later spent 13 years as a senior aide, adviser, and campaign manager to the senator from 1989 to 2002, managing all three of his election campaigns. Jeff has served in key positions in dozens of other campaigns, including a post as senior adviser for Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar’s 2006 race, and get-out-the-vote director for the 2004 Kerry Campaign in Minnesota. He earned his Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1998.

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