Jeremy Bernard

Member, Board of Advisors

Jeremy Bernard served as White House Social Secretary and Special Assistant to the President from 2011-2015. He was President and CEO of The Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles from 2018 – 2020.  Jeremy is the co-author, with Lea Berman, the Social Secretary for George W. Bush, of Treating People Well.  Featured as a popular speaker globally, he has been interviewed extensively on television and for print articles, including profiles in Vogue magazine (as the first male and first gay White House Social Secretary) and The New York Times. Previously, Jeremy was the senior advisor to the US Ambassador in France, prior to which he was the White House Liaison to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Jeremy has worked on numerous presidential campaigns and has twice served on the Democratic National Committee. He currently runs his own consulting firm in Los Angeles.