About Brian Vogt
Brian Vogt is a Senior Advisor at the Partnership for a Secure America. He works as a Program Manager for the National Democratic Institute's Asia program.
In 2004 he co-founded a political advocacy organization, Win Back Respect, that promoted an American foreign policy that engages America’s friends and allies. During the 2004 presidential campaign Win Back Respect produced television advertisements that aired in every battleground state featuring military families whose loved ones were serving in Iraq. Win Back Respect also organized a series of town hall events led by General Wesley Clark. In 2003/04 he also worked as a field organizer with the Howard Dean presidential campaign in Iowa and Michigan.
He has worked for four years with the international nonprofit organization Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, which invests in social entrepreneurs in developing countries. Brian worked with Ashoka’s Asia program and led the organization’s monitoring and evaluation program. He has done field research on post conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone, worked in the microfinance field in Bangalore, India, and served as an international election observer in Indonesia with the Carter Center. He has taught English in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and has twice cycled across the U.S. to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity. He has a Masters in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University and a BA in Political Science from Yale University.
His blog posts reflect his own opinion and not necessarily that of any affiliated organization.
Posts by Brian Vogt:
- Process matters in building bipartisan support, 12 Mar 2010
- Addressing the “God-gap” in U.S. foreign policy, 01 Mar 2010
- Repeal the ban. Our soldiers’ lives are depending on it, 10 Feb 2010
- Time to get the Pakistani public on board, 27 Jan 2010
- Next economic stimulus: immigration reform, 13 Jan 2010
- Time to Islamicize the condemnation of Iran, 29 Dec 2009
- Not time to throw out those fluorescent light bulbs, 15 Dec 2009
- Afghanistan questions I hope will be answered tonight, 01 Dec 2009
- Who is seeing the real Afghanistan?, 03 Nov 2009
- Bipartisan breakthrough on climate change, 20 Oct 2009