Daniel Altschuler

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Daniel Altschuler is a political scientist, organizer, and writer. He holds a doctorate in Politics and a Masters in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently the Managing Director of the Freedom Together Foundation. Prior to that, he served as Co-Executive Director of Make the Road Action (which operates in New York, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut) and the Director of Politics and Strategic Communications at Make the Road New York (MRNY).

Daniel’s academic research focused on civil society and civic and political participation. He published The Promise of Participation: Experiments in Participatory Governance in Honduras and Guatemala (2013, Palgrave-MacMillan) with Javier Corrales, as well as other academic articles. He has held positions as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Visiting Scholar at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Public Policy at the New School for Public Engagement, and Copeland Fellow at Amherst College.

Daniel’s journalistic work has focused on US politics, immigration, and Central American politics. He has been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, Foreign Policy, New York Daily News, Newsday, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, Americas Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Dissent.

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