In 2007-2008 he was Associate Regional Director and Director of Communications for the New England Region of the Anti-Defamation League, He played an instrumental role in helping the agency preserve its public image and political influence in the midst of a major public controversy.
As a consultant for firms in Boston and Washington, Mr. Gordon specialized in public affairs, with expertise in public policy questions involving transportation, education, health care, energy, and regulatory policy. He is skilled at both crisis management and strategic planning.
Mr. Gordon’s range of experience extends from Washington to Wall Street. He was a columnist and editorial writer for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA; covered politics and lobbying for Congressional Quarterly; was Washington Correspondent for the Denver Rocky Mountain News, and was a reporter and editor on the Business, National, and Op-Ed pages of Newsday in New York. His articles also have appeared in The Washington Post, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, and Boston Business Journal.
In the 2004 presidential campaign Mr. Gordon was a regional press lead for John Kerry and the Democratic ticket in the hotly contested battleground state of Wisconsin. A winner of an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, Mr. Gordon worked as a legislative aide for Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin and Rep. Martha Keys of Kansas, and later was press secretary for Rep. Joseph Ammerman of Pennsylvania. He has won a Publicity Club of New England Bell Ringer award for his work on organizational image-building.
Mr. Gordon is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was an Adjunct Professor at Boston University’s College of Communication and at Emerson College in Boston.
He is a nationally recognized expert on New Media, the Internet, computer technology and telecommunications. Mr. Gordon is the co-author of several books on computing for Microsoft Press, Que Publishing, and O'Reilly and Associates and currently writes a technology column for the Eagle-Tribune Newspapers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He was a columnist for eBay Magazine, a contributor to PC Computing, and a content provider for the MediaOne Group (now Comcast).
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