Hurwitz, Sarah

<p> From 2009 to 2017, Sarah Hurwitz served as a White House speechwriter, starting out as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama and then becoming the chief speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama. Sarah worked with Mrs. Obama to craft a number of widely-acclaimed addresses, including her 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Convention speeches and her political speeches during the 2016 campaign cycle. During Sarah’s time in the White House, she traveled with the President and First Lady across America and to five continents. Sarah also worked on policy issues affecting young women and girls as a senior advisor to the White House Council on Women and Girls. </p>

<p> Before working at the White House, Sarah served as a senior speechwriter for then-Senator Barack Obama in the final months of his 2008 presidential campaign and helped Michelle Obama craft her 2008 Democratic National Convention speech. During the 2008 presidential primary, Sarah was the chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton from early 2007 until her concession in June of 2008. </p>

<p> Prior to working on the Clinton and Obama campaigns, Sarah was a lawyer at the Washington, DC office of WilmerHale. During the 2004 presidential election, she served as deputy chief speechwriter for General Wesley Clark in the primary and deputy chief speechwriter for Senator John Kerry in the general election. From 2000-2001, Sarah was a speechwriter for Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. </p>

<p> Sarah is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. </p>

From 2009 to 2017, Sarah Hurwitz served as a White House speechwriter, first as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama and then as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama. Prior to working in the White House, she was the Chief Speechwriter for Hillary Clinton on her 2008 presidential campaign, as well as Deputy Chief Speechwriter for Senator John Kerry and General Wesley Clark during the 2004 Presidential campaign cycle. Sarah is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and served as a Spring 2017 Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Sarah is currently working on a book about Judaism coming out in September 2019 entitled Here All Along: A Reintroduction to Judaism.

Sarah currently serves as Special Assistant to the President, Senior Policy and Strategy Advisor to the White House Council on Women and Girls (CWG), and Senior Presidential Speechwriter. In her speechwriter role, Sarah has written speeches for both President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and in her work on CWG, Sarah focuses on issues affecting young women and girls. Before working at the White House, Sarah worked as a Senior Speechwriter on the Obama Campaign; as Chief Speechwriter on Senator Hillary ClintonÕs Presidential campaign; as Deputy Chief Speechwriter on the Presidential campaigns of General Wesley Clark and Senator John Kerry; and as a speechwriter for Senator Tom Harkin. Prior to working on the Clinton and Obama campaigns, Sarah was an attorney at the Washington, DC office of WilmerHale. Sarah is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

<p> Sarah Hurwitz is an American speechwriter. A senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010, and head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama from 2010 to 2017, she was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by Barack Obama after leaving the White House. </p>

<p> Hurwitz is from Wayland, Massachusetts. She attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and began her career as an intern in Vice President's Al Gore's office in 1998. She was Chief Speechwriter for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and Deputy Chief Speechwriter for the Presidential campaigns of Senator John Kerry and General Wesley Clark. </p>

<p> Hurwitz wrote Hillary Clinton's 2008 concession speech. She was offered a job as a member of Obama's presidential campaign team days after Clinton delivered the speech. Her first assignment for Michelle Obama was to work with her on her address to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She also wrote Mrs. Obama's speeches at the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions. Hurwitz also worked on policy issues affecting young women and girls as a senior advisor to the White House Council on Women and Girls. After leaving the White House in 2017, she served as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University. </p>