Georgetown University Alumni

Nick Baldick (Georgetown ’92)

Nick Baldick is President and founder of the progressive political consulting and grasstops public affairs firm, Hilltop Public Solutions, and an alumni of the Georgetown University College Democrats.

In the 2004 election, Baldick served as the national campaign manager for Senator John Edwards’ 2004 presidential campaign, and held a leading role in Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, managing the Vice President’s political action committee, Leadership ’98, and serving as the Gore campaign’s New Hampshire State Director. Previously, Baldick served as the eastern political director within President Bill Clinton’s White House Office of Political Affairs, and served as a Field Director for the successful ‘92 and ‘96 Presidential campaigns.

While an active member of the Georgetown University College Democrats, Baldick met Mo Elleithee, a fellow progressive organizer and consultant who now serves alongside him as a Co-Founding Partner at Hilltop Public Solutions.

Patrick Dillon (Georgetown ’99)

Patrick Dillon is Deputy Director of Political Affairs in the Obama White House, and an alumni of the Georgetown University College Democrats.

From 2006 to 2009, Dillon served as Chief of Staff for Governor Chet Culver of Iowa. Before serving as Chief of Staff, Dillon served as Communications Director of Tom Daschle’s 2004 Senate campaign, John Edwards’ 2004 presidential Campaign and Senator Mark Warner’s successful 2001 Gubernatorial campaign in Virginia. He also has served as Political Director for Congressman Leonard Boswell of Iowa.

Mo Elleithee (Georgetown ’94)

Mo Elleithee is a Co-Founding Partner of the progressive political consulting and grasstops public affairs firm, Hilltop Public Solutions, and an alumni of the Georgetown University College Democrats.

Elleithee is currently serving as Senior Strategist for former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for Virginia Governor. In the two election cycles, Elleithee served as Senior Spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and ran the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee’s successful independent expenditure campaign against then-Senator George Allen of Virginia, on behalf of current Senator Jim Webb. Elleithee’s 2008 campaign also included serving as Senior Advisor to Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico’s successful 2008 campaign. Previously, he served as New Hampshire Communications Director for General Wesley Clark’s 2004 presidential campaign.

In 2008, he was named Alumnus of the Year by George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. While an active member of the Georgetown University College Democrats, Mo Elleithee met Nick Baldick, a fellow progressive organizer and consultant who now serves alongside him as President at Hilltop Public Solutions.

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (Georgetown ’93)

The Honorable Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is South Dakota’s at-large Member of Congress, and an alumni of the Georgetown University College Democrats.

Representative Herseth Sandlin is the youngest woman member of the House, and the first woman elected to the House of Representatives from South Dakota. She won the seat in a special election in 2004. She is the also the Chairwoman of the Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, and was chosen to serve on the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Representative Herseth Sandlin attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Government. She subsequently received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a senior editor of the law review, and later served on the law school faculty. Representative Herseth Sandlin was an active College Democrat, who ran for President of College Democrats of America in 1991; since then, she has stayed committed to working with College Democrats.

Chris Kelly (Georgetown ’91)

Chris Kelly is Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook, and an alumni of the Georgetown University College Democrats. Through his advising work at the technology law firm Wlson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Kelly has emerged as one of the most prominent and influential progressive voices on the balance between protecting privacy online while allowing the individual to make his or her own choice with their online identity. After receiving his B.A. from Georgetown, Kelly earned an M.A. from Yale and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he co-founded the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Rep. Glenn Nye (Georgetown ‘96)

Congressman Glenn Nye is the representative for Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, and an alumni of the Georgetown University College Democrats.

Congressman Nye serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Veterans Affairs Committee, in addition to serving as the Chairman of the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Technology. Prior to his election in 2008, he served in the US State Department. While in this role, he volunteered to work in Iraq for nearly a year in 2007 as an advisor for a USAID program tasked with combating the insurgency by creating jobs and stabilizing neighborhoods.

In 2002, Nye spent more than a year in Afghanistan with the US Agency for International Development, working with the State Department to manage the Afghan Constitutional Convention and assisting with their Presidential election. Previously, he had earned the State Department’s Superior Honor Award in 2002, for his work as a member of the Foreign Service in Kosovo to help secure the release of US hostages. In 1996, Nye graduated from Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, at Georgetown University, where he’d been an active member of the College Democrats.

Dan Pfeiffer (Georgetown ’98)

Daniel Pfeiffer is the President Obama’s Deputy Communications Director, and an alumni of the Georgetown University College Democrats.

During the 2008 Presidential campaign, Pfeiffer served as Deputy Communications Director for then-Senator Obama, a role he has continued within the Obama White House, first as Communications Director for the Presidential transition team, and now in his current role.

Prior to his work on the Obama campaign, Pfeiffer served as a communications idrector for Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, an adviser for the 2002 re-election campaign of Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota; and a spokesman for Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. Shortly after his graduation from Georgetown University in 1998, Pfeiffer served within President Clinton’s Justice Department as a communications director for an initiative which put 100,000 cops on the street.