Blake Zeff is a nationally renowned advisor, visionary leader and multimedia pioneer.
The founder & CEO of Zeff Media, he's led successful teams at the highest levels of media, politics, and communications. He's the director of LOAN WOLVES, the award-winning, critically hailed documentary on student debt, and host of the beloved Mets Fix podcast.
Previously, he had a front-row seat to the top levels of U.S. government and campaigns for more than a decade as an expert in policy and strategic communications. He built and managed large teams as a senior aide on Capitol Hill in the U.S. Senate for three years as communications director for Sen. Chuck Schumer, as the Deputy Comptroller for the City of New York, and as a senior policy & communications adviser in the New York Attorney General Office. He has also helped guide two presidential campaigns (including as a key spokesman for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign), and numerous non-profit organizations. For his work in strategic communications for campaigns, he was hailed in a profile about him by the New York Daily News as a "secret election weapon."
He was also an early leader of the successful media startup Some Spider -- featuring CAFE, Scary Mommy, and The Dad -- funded by Mark Lore and Vinit Bharara. As the chief content officer, he led the company to prominence on the way to being acquired by Vox and Bustle Digital Group.
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As a journalist and filmmaker, Zeff's work confronted issues like America's student loan crisis, the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice, homelessness, public corruption, and poverty. He hosted dozens of episodes on MSNBC and SiriusXM, and has appeared hundreds of times on television as an expert on media and politics including on programs like "Morning Joe" and "The Rachel Maddow Show."
The former politics editor of Salon, he's also written for some of the nation's best-known publications including The Atlantic, GQ, Politico, Vice, The Village Voice and BuzzFeed, with his writing on New York politics for Capital New York resulting in several exclusive reports and influential columns, leading him to be called "Mr. New York Politics” by Steve Kornacki on MSNBC.
A widely sought after speaker, Blake has presented worldwide on leadership, politics and media to colleges, cultural institutions and policymakers (including the Parliaments of Canada and Finland). He is a graduate of Brown University.