Speaking

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

DateEventRole
Oct 28 to 29, 20268th Annual EV Charging Infrastructure US Conference, New YorkModerator: Looking Beyond 2027 and the Path to 2030
Jul 15, 2026Maryland Mitigation Working GroupTestimony
Jul 2026California multifamily charging workshop, with the Harvard Salata InstituteCo-host
Sep 24, 2025MOVE America, DetroitPanelist: The Message Is the Missing Infrastructure
Mar 29 to 31, 2019Unrig Summit (now the American Democracy Summit), NashvilleSpeaker
Feb 2 to 4, 2018Unrig Summit (now the American Democracy Summit), New OrleansSpeaker
Dec 1 to 4, 201617th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC), Panama City, PanamaSpeaker
Oct 13, 2015League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford, Illinois: forum on the Illinois Anti-Corruption ActPanelist
Sep 12, 2014Tea Party Network, FloridaPresenter
May 12, 2014Sarasota County Council of Neighborhood Associations: Combating Corruption in Government and Promoting Ethics in Sarasota County (coverage)Speaker, by video
May 2013Polk County Tiger Bay Club, LakelandSpeaker: Florida’s new ethics reforms
Jul 13, 2012Tea Party Network, FloridaBoard presentation to a network of 70+ Tea Party groups
May 30, 2012League of Women Voters of the St. Petersburg Area, Studio@620The Corrupting Influence of Money in Florida Politics: A Vision for Ethics Reform
Apr 21, 2012League of Women Voters of Tallahassee, annual meetingSpeaker
OngoingDirectly Current, the EVs for All America podcastEpisodes
© Dan Krassner · New York City · Strategist, Organization Builder & Stand-Up Comic