Margot Friedman, J.D. is the principal of Dupont Circle Communications, a full service communications firm that specializes in persuasive written products for progressive nonprofit organizations and Democratic PACs. Margot brings nearly 20 years of experience in strategic communications, media relations, speechwriting, lobbying, and campaign management to Dupont Circle Communications.

Margot has been fortunate to write draft remarks for Democratic leaders including Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator John Edwards and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, celebrities including Geena Davis and Holly Hunter, and many other elected officials and nonprofit leaders. Margot has also written for EMILY’s List, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Public Justice, and the Capital Litigation Communications Project.     

Before starting Dupont Circle Communications, Margot held senior positions in some of the nation's leading advocacy organizations. As Vice President for Communications at the National Women's Law Center, Margot:

• Designed strategic communications initiatives that made frequent headlines in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Associated Press and shaped public opinion on a broad range of issues of concern to women and low-income families, including education, health and reproductive rights, family economic security, employment discrimination, and judicial nominations; and
  
  
• Led the media relations operation that was essential to defeating the Bush Administration's attempt to gut Title IX protections for female students. This success was profiled in a Packard Foundation-funded study of best practices in strategic communications.

Previously, Margot served as Deputy Director of Media Relations at People For the American Way, where she provided communications support for First Amendment litigation. In 1998, she ran the referendum campaign on same-gender marriage in Hawaii for the Human Rights Campaign, which included large-scale press events and fundraisers, field operations with 1,500 volunteers, and one million dollars in television advertising.

In addition to her national experience, Margot has worked on the state and local levels to increase the effectiveness of leaders and their organizations. Margot served as counsel to the Massachusetts Senate, where she built coalitions and drafted 14 bills signed into law, including hate crimes and juvenile justice reform. She ran winning campaigns that sent candidates to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Cambridge City Council. In 1985, Margot co-founded a nonprofit agency that trained and organized crime watch and court-monitoring groups in Boston's low-income neighborhoods.

Margot began her career as a litigator at Nutter, McClennen & Fish, a large Boston law firm, where her pro bono work included the defense of a man on death row in Alabama. She graduated with honors from Boston College Law School and Tufts University.