MY CV
Professional Experience
2021 - Present
DAN FRIEDMAN CONSULTING LLC
Founder and CEO of a bespoke digital communications and editing consultancy.
Education
YALE UNIVERSITY
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
PhD in Comparative Literature
MA in English Literature
2014 to present
ADVISOR TO SACHA BARON COHEN
Consultant on internet policy
2021 - Present
GHOSTWRITER AND WRITING COACH
Writer and writing coach for pieces that ended in New York Daily News, Harvard Business Review, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Nature, Times of London, USA Today and more
2020 to 2022
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE
Consultant with an international nonprofit dedicated to disrupting online disinformation and hate.
2021 - 2023
DAYENU: A JEWISH CALL TO CLIMATE ACTION
Communications consultant, working with the team to land coverage as well as to write, pitch and place stories.
2021 - 2022
HIAS
Communications consultant. Wrote, edited, managed writers, and worked to set up content on new website.
2019 to 2021
SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE
Director of Content and Communications for a thinktank and educational center
· Launched podcasts, video content, new website
· Laid groundwork for new online course and journal
2008 - 2019
FORWARD
Executive editor for the national Jewish newspaper
· Doubled online readership
· Brought a 100-year-old print publication to digital-first
· Led 2015 website redesign and rebrand project
As Arts & Culture Editor transformed 3 weekly arts pages in print into daily arts and culture articles
2000 to 2008
TEACHING AND EDUCATION
Taught and headed education projects at Yale, Scholastic, Schechter Regional High School and Yeshiva University High School.