Dan Klotz is a veteran writer and advocate with more than 20
years of experience leveraging publicity to help propel public policy
campaigns. He has shaped and placed opinion pieces that have appeared
throughout the world’s media, in outlets including New York Times,
Financial Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Guardian, CNN.com and
AlJazeera.com.
His career has spanned a wide range of policy issues,
including the domestic and global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the rights
of Indigenous communities in the U.S. and around the world; finding new ways to
treat and prevent tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases of poverty; efforts
to halt tropical deforestation; tobacco control policies, including smoke-free
workplaces; the importance of federally funded agricultural research; efforts
that tackle non-communicable diseases and how they disproportionately harm
communities of color; equitable and pedestrian-friendly urban development, international
shark conservation; the cleanup of toxic waste sites; and conservation of wild
areas on land and in the ocean.
A native New Yorker, Dan received a B.A. in English from
Cornell University. He is a former member of the board of directors of CASA
(Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Prince George’s County, Maryland, and
wrote for seven years for National Geographics Voices blog. His essays
have also been published by the Washington Post and other outlets.