• Jill Alper
• Charles Baker III
• Erik Balsbaugh
• Vida Benavides
• Karen Breslau
• Charles Campion
• Maria Cardona
• Tim Chambers
• Jason Cohen
• Claire Cullis
• Joe Eyer
• Parisa Golkar
• Ryan Hughes
• Brandon Hynes
• Karin Johanson
• Jua Johnson
• Denis Kennedy
• Tracey Lewis
• Jessie Lyons
• Margaret Lyons
• Mary Anne Marsh
• Tom McShane
• Minyon Moore
• Paul Moran
• Kevin Mulvey
• Lisa Mushaw
• Heidi Nel
• Paul Pezzella
• Anu Rangappa
• Joe Ricca
• Matt Rodriguez
• Eric Schnure
• Rob Sebastian
• Scott Shalett
• Elise Shutzer
• Karen Skelton
• Steve Smith
• Charles Stefanini
• Craig Sutherland
• Janice Tatarka
• Ginny Terzano
• Lynda Tocci
• Tamara Torlakson
• Molly Weedn
• Tony Welch
• Michael Whouley
• Lisa Jo Yarid

Karen Breslau

A longtime journalist and communications strategist, Karen Breslau joined the Dewey Square Group in January 2011 and is responsible for designing and managing media relations and strategic communications for clients of the firm’s California practice. Karen joined Dewey Square from the Office of the President of the University of California, the nation’s premier public research university system. As director of executive communications, she handled speechwriting, social media, advocacy and strategic communications on behalf of the president of the 10-campus U.C. system.

Prior to joining the University of California, Breslau was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine for 20 years, most recently serving as San Francisco bureau chief, where she led political and environmental coverage from the West Coast. Earlier, she served as Newsweek’s White House correspondent, covering the Clinton administration.  Breslau began her Newsweek career as a foreign correspondent based in Germany and Eastern Europe, where she covered major historical events including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Romanian revolution, the Soviet coup, German unification and the Yugoslav Civil War.  After returning to the United States, Karen was named Newsweek’s diplomatic correspondent, responsible for the coverage of U.S. foreign policy. In 1995 she negotiated exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the Clinton re-election campaign. Her reporting was published along with that of the magazine’s team in a special award-winning election issue of Newsweek and later in a book, Back from the Dead: How Clinton Survived the Republican Revolution.  Karen has also covered the presidential campaigns of Al Gore (2000) and Hillary Clinton (2008). In 2007 she became the first national reporter to profile Sarah Palin, fully a year before her nomination as John McCain’s running mate.  Karen began her journalism career as a producer for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and later was promoted to on-air reporter. She has received numerous awards for her journalistic work.

Karen is also a widely recognized public speaker and media commentator, with appearances on CNN Inside Politics, ABC News Nightline and Good Morning America , PBS NewsHour, NPR’s All Things Considered and Washington Week in Review. She has served many times as a moderator for the Commonwealth Club of California, and was a host of Newsweek’s Women and Leadership Forum, as well as a commentator for Audible.com. Her freelance work has been published in the New York Times magazine, MORE and WIRED.

Karen holds a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of California at Davis in International Relations and German. She has an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, where she specialized in Soviet and U.S. foreign policy. In 1998, Breslau was one of 12 U.S. journalists selected for the prestigious John S. Knight fellowship at Stanford University. Breslau is also an experienced instructor, having taught political science at U.C. Berkeley and creative nonfiction writing at Stanford. She lives in Oakland, CA with her son Ben and her daughter Sarah.