Rob Stein

Rob Stein was the founder of the Democracy Alliance and co-founder of the Committee on States.

An attorney by training, Rob founded and ran several non-profit organizations, was senior strategist to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, chief of staff of the Washington Office of the Clinton-Gore Transition, served as chief of staff of the United States Department of Commerce, and was a private equity investor working with dozens of early-stage companies.

Rob’s original, comprehensive research about the funding, management, and overall infrastructure of the conservative movement over the last three decades, and his recruitment of leading progressive strategists, activists and donors, resulted in the formation of the Democracy Alliance. He co-led the Strengthening Our American Republic research sponsored by the Fetzer Institute and Stand Together with Carolyn Lukensmeyer.

Since 2017, Rob had been a champion of, and commentator on, cross-partisanship in American culture and politics; and advised a diverse range of center-right, center-left, and independent cultural and political organizations and leaders.