From 2009 to 2017, Sarah Hur­witz served as a White House speech­writer, first for Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma and then as the chief speech­writer for First Lady Michelle Oba­ma. Hur­witz worked with Mrs. Oba­ma to craft a num­ber of wide­ly acclaimed address­es, includ­ing her 2012 and 2016 Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion speech­es and her polit­i­cal speech­es dur­ing the 2016 cam­paign cycle. She also worked on pol­i­cy issues affect­ing young women and girls as a senior advi­sor to the White House Coun­cil on Women and Girls. Dur­ing the 2008 pres­i­den­tial pri­ma­ry, Hur­witz was the chief speech­writer for Sen­a­tor Hillary Clin­ton from ear­ly 2007 until her con­ces­sion in June of 2008. Pri­or to work­ing on the Clin­ton and Oba­ma cam­paigns, she was was a speech­writer for Sen­a­tor Tom Harkin, Gen­er­al Wes­ley Clark, Sen­a­tor John Ker­ry, and was a lawyer at the Wash­ing­ton, D.C., office of Wilmer­Hale. Hur­witz is a grad­u­ate of Har­vard Col­lege and Har­vard Law School, and is cur­rent­ly a fel­low at the Insti­tute of Pol­i­tics at Har­vard Kennedy School.