Sometimes politics, government and public service are viewed as three distinctly separate concepts.  Tonight at the Clinton School, speaker Dan Schnur will discuss how they work together to promote a better future.

Dan Schnur is the executive director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, where he works to motivate students to become involved in politics, government, and public service and teaches popular classes in politics, communications and leadership.

In 2010, Schnur was appointed Chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). During his tenure, he implemented groundbreaking campaign finance disclosure requirements for independent committees, appointed a bipartisan task force to update California’s 1978 Political Reform Act, and worked to assure the disclosure of campaign finance and spending practices, fair elections, and government transparency. In 2014, Dan ran for statewide office as a non-partisan candidate for California Secretary of State, the first candidate to run for statewide office as an Independent.

For years, Schnur was one of California’s leading political and media strategists, whose record includes work on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns including serving as the national Director of Communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain and five years as chief media spokesman for California Governor Pete Wilson.

The program begins at 6pm at the Clinton School.