Adam Shapiro combines a passion for public policy with his strong interest in media in order to help clients achieve results. His clients include Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Council for a Strong America, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and Lumina Foundation.
Before joining Lipman Hearne, Adam was a vice president with a Washington, D.C.-based communications firm that focused on education and public policy issues. Through the years he led efforts for The Pew Center on the States, New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (which resulted in a TIME magazine cover story and coverage on the CBS Evening News), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, All Kinds of Minds Institute, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the American WWII Orphans Network. His issue specialties include building public support for early education investments and linking economic development to education attainment.
In addition, Adam served as a press secretary to North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt, who is widely acknowledged as a model for an “Education Governor.” His campaign experience includes managing an independent expenditure initiative during the 2008 Iowa caucuses and statewide ballot issues in North Carolina and California. He also worked to advance the agenda of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Adam began his career as a broadcast journalist where he covered everything from hurricanes to politics. He was embedded with the Michigan Air National Guard when it participated in “Operation Deny Flight” during the Bosnia War and has been recognized for excellence by the National School Public Relations Society, National School Public Relations Association, International Association of Business Communicators, and the Radio-Television News Directors Association with its Edward R. Murrow Award. Currently Adam serves as the communications chair for the event committee of the Capital Area Food Bank.
Adam is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.