Brent Colburn\u2019s experience goes back to the Al Gore presidential campaign in 2000, through Howard Dean\u2019s campaign in 2004, both Obama campaigns, FEMA, Homeland Security, HUD, and to the Pentagon, where he was in charge of communications for the Defense Department. After that, he led communications for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan\u2019s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and he is now the Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Along the way he was a fellow at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government.
In this episode, we hear Brent's insights on how we should deal with the coronavirus crisis, and what he\u2019s learned from dealing with other high-stakes crises during his career.