User:Brad Rourke

Brad Rourke is executive editor of issue guides and program officer for the Kettering Foundation.

Rourke was senior project manager and then director, external initiatives at The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation and vice president for public policy at the Institute for Global Ethics. He has served on the staffs of then-Controller of California Gray Davis and Congresswoman Jane Harman, and as deputy California campaign manager for the National Health Care Campaign.

Rourke has spoken at the National Press Club, the Brookings Institution and the Chautauqua Institution. He has written and co-written a number of articles and op-ed pieces, appearing in print publications such as The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Foundation News and Commentary, Campaigns & Elections, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He contributed a chapter on the ethics of citizenship to Shades of Gray (Brookings Institution, 2002).

Rourke received his B.A. in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley and an M.P.A. from American University.