A strategist who’s also a stand-up comic.
Dan brings two decades of cross-partisan campaigns, and the timing of a working comic, to conferences, legislative hearings, workshops and podcasts.
Topics
- Strange bedfellows: how to build coalitions of people who don’t normally sit in the same room, from Tea Party leaders and the League of Women Voters to automakers and environmental groups.
- Ending the partisan fight over EVs: what three years of national survey data say about why EVs became political, and what moves people.
- The MyFirstEV playbook: how California designed, funded and passed a first-time EV buyer program with a dollar-for-dollar automaker match, and how other states can do it.
- Winning the first one: lessons from America’s first local Anti-Corruption Act and other first-of-their-kind reforms.
- What comedy teaches strategy: reading the room, cutting an idea to what matters, and finding out fast whether it lands.
Recent and past appearances
| Date | Event | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 28 to 29, 2026 | 8th Annual EV Charging Infrastructure US Conference, New York | Moderator: Looking Beyond 2027 and the Path to 2030 |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Maryland Mitigation Working Group | Testimony |
| Jul 2026 | California multifamily charging workshop, with the Harvard Salata Institute | Co-host |
| Sep 24, 2025 | MOVE America, Detroit | Panelist: The Message Is the Missing Infrastructure |
| Mar 29 to 31, 2019 | Unrig Summit (now the American Democracy Summit), Nashville | Speaker |
| Feb 2 to 4, 2018 | Unrig Summit (now the American Democracy Summit), New Orleans | Speaker |
| Dec 1 to 4, 2016 | 17th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), Panama City, Panama | Speaker |
| Oct 13, 2015 | League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford, Illinois: forum on the Illinois Anti-Corruption Act | Panelist |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Tea Party Network, Florida | Presenter |
| May 12, 2014 | Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Associations: Combating Corruption in Government and Promoting Ethics in Sarasota County (coverage) | Speaker, by video |
| May 2013 | Polk County Tiger Bay Club, Lakeland | Speaker: Florida’s new ethics reforms |
| Jul 13, 2012 | Tea Party Network, Florida | Board presentation to a network of 70+ Tea Party groups |
| May 30, 2012 | League of Women Voters of the St. Petersburg Area, Studio@620 | The Corrupting Influence of Money in Florida Politics: A Vision for Ethics Reform |
| Apr 21, 2012 | League of Women Voters of Tallahassee, annual meeting | Speaker |
| Ongoing | Directly Current, the EVs for All America podcast | Episodes |
© Dan Krassner · New York City · Strategist, Organization Builder & Stand-Up Comic