Andrew Solomon got his first taste of political activism in the short-lived Wes Clark presidential primary campaign of 2004, organizing volunteer cell phone banks in New York and holding up a 10-foot Clark sign at a highway off-ramp in frigid New Hampshire. It didn’t work. After thawing out in the spring of 2004, he became a Director of ACT New York.
As a founding Director of ACT NOW, he has enjoyed several seasons of cold pizza and close elections. He is especially proud of helping to defeat the loathsome Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) in 2006 and the notoriously corrupt New York State Senator Pedro Espada (D) in 2010.
Andrew is currently studying business and public policy at The Wharton School in Philadelphia, where he hopes to learn how to harness the power of capitalism to do something useful for the world. (If anyone has any good ideas, he’s open to suggestions.) Before enrolling in his MBA program, he worked in several human capital and strategy roles at a brainiac investment firm in Midtown.
When pressed, Andrew summarizes his political philosophy as “progressive ends, pragmatic means.” As the most pro-market member of ACT NOW’s Board, he is occasionally the victim of unconscionable character attacks by ACT NOW colleague Kenan Rubenstein. Happily, the pair are still able to bond over their shared love of homemade pancakes.
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