Peter Loge
Senior Vice President, M+R Strategic Services

Phone: (202) 478-6176
Fax: (202) 223-9579
E-mail: ploge@mrss.com
Office: MPA 425

Expertise

Communications and political strategy

Courses Taught

PCM 190, Rhetorical Theory in Politics

Selected Works

Background

At M+R Strategic Services Peter Loge is Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Field and directs the communications team. At M+R he has provided strategic guidance to a variety of clients, including: Human Rights First; New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and Directors, and many others. Prior to joining M+R in 2004 Peter served as the first Director of the Criminal Justice Reform Education Fund and the Campaign for Criminal Justice Reform at The Justice Project where he helped to redefine the national debate over the death penalty. 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; Director of Constituent Services to former U.S. Representative Sam Coppersmith; and Deputy to the Chief of Staff for Senator Edward Kennedy.

He has served as an advisor to candidates nationally and has provided direction for numerous issue campaigns on a variety of topics. Peter has been a political satirist for NPR and the BBC, published scholarly and popular articles on a range of topics, lectures regularly on politics and lobbying at colleges around the country. Peter is the president of Emerson College alumni board, is chairman of the board of GoodWorkPAC.org, serves on the Board of United for DC, and is a founding board member of NEXT PAC. He is also a past board chair of DC SCORES, and after school writing and literacy program in the nation’s capital.

Education

M.A., Political Science, Arizona State University, 1992
M.S., Speech, Syracuse University, 1989
B.S., Speech, Emerson College, 1987