Anat Shenker-Osorio

Anat Shenker-Osorio is an American political strategist and communications consultant. She works in the area of public policy and public relations.

Shenker-Osario is known for promoting an communication approach named "race-class narrative", which attempts to play upon social class and race differences to promote progressive policies.

Life, education, and career
Anat Shenker and her family relocated from Israel to the United States.

She attended her high school years in Madison, Wisconsin, where Anat Shenker had an excellent Spanish teacher who had been in the Peace Corps.

After she moved to New York City, Shenker holds a BA in Political Science from Columbia University in 1999.

She changed his surname from Shenker to Shenker-Osorio after her marriage with a Honduran woodworker named Donaldo Osorio while she works to develop non-governmental organizations in Honduras through grant writing and project management assistance.

Shenker-Osorio holds a master's degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.

She also co-founded what became the "Race-Class Narrative Project," with Heather McGhee and Ian Haney López.

In 2018, Shenker-Osorio was an fellow of Open Society Foundations.

As communication expert, she founded a ASO Communications, a political polling and strategy group.

Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy
Her work is changing the way progressives talk about everything from international arms control to immigration. It is observed in the main book published by Shenker-Osorio named Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy.

In this book, Shenker-Osorio argued to progressive messaging on the economy and economics and she advises on messaging around inequality and wages, helping progressives to use metaphors and other devices to maximum effect. She looks closely at the language of the first question on minds of people these days, namely the economy, and in this conservative presupposition reigns: “The genius...of conservatives,” she states, “''is in not just trumpeting their version of events. They also embed the key ideas that (1) government activity is the problem and (2) economic fluctuations of this magnitude are normal and expected.''”

Articles

 * Shenker-Osorio, Anat. "Why Americans All Believe They Are'Middle Class'." The Atlantic 1 (2013).
 * Shenker-Osorio, Anat. "Taking refuge from out rhetoric: A language analysis on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees." Words that work (2015).
 * Shenker-Osorio, Anat. "Messaging This Moment: A Handbook for Progressive Communicators." Centre for Community Change (2017).
 * López, Ian Haney, Anat Shenker-Osorio, and Tamara Draut. "Democrats Can Win by Tackling Race and Class Together. Here's Proof." The Guardian (2018).