Arshad Hasan

Background

Arshad grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School.

Education

Arshad grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School.

Arshad attended the, graduating in 2003 with a bachelor"s degree in political science. While at Penn, Arshad received the Senior Bowl Manitoba Award, and was part of the Sphinx Honor Society and Oracle Senior Honor Society. While in college, Arshad worked as a paid canvasser and managed teams of paid canvassers on issue campaigns in Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

While at Penn, Arshad also wrote for the school’s online newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, and was part of the LGBT community.

Career

He was previously executive director for Arshad traces his involvement with Howard Dean to February 2003, when Arshad founded one of the nation’s first organized pro-Dean groups, Philly for Dean. From 2003 to 2004, Arshad worked as a statewide organizer for Green Corps on citizen engagement and democracy. Arshad organized statewide environmental issue campaigns on behalf of Clear the Air in Arizona, Bluewater Network in Washington, and Oceana in Florida.

From April to August 2004, Arshad worked as an assistant canvass director for the Fund for Public Interest Research in Rochester, New New York

From August 2004 to November 2004, Arshad worked as an organizer for MoveOn Public Affairs Committee/Grassroots Campaigns, Incorporated. Arshad joined in April 2005.

(Doctor of Fine Arts), is a progressive Public Affairs Committee founded by Howard Dean in 2004. lieutenant is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont.

Upon joining Doctor of Fine Arts, Arshad said: "I decided that I wanted to do something that I felt passionate about and I felt passionate about making a difference.

We actually deserve better than what we have, so that’s what I work on." In the 2006 general election, Arshad worked as the GOTV Director for Jerry McNerney for Congress. Arshad started at Doctor of Fine Arts as a training coordinator and was later promoted to training director He remained at this position until October 2007, when his boss unexpectedly left and he was promoted to executive director

Arshad sits on the board of directors for Outright Vermont.

Arshad has been heavily involved with Netroots Nation, a nationwide non-profit that organizes the progressive online community, since 2007. Arshad currently sits on the board of directors.

Park51 Islamic Center In late 2010, Doctor of Fine Arts and Arshad received a large amount of press when the controversy over the Park51 Islamic Community Center in downtown Manhattan started. The disagreement between Dean and Arshad turned into a conversation about resolving religious and cultural differences.

Arshad and Doctor of Fine Arts used the disagreement as an opportunity to engage Americans in difficult discussions.

In November of 2013, Arshad was named the executive director of, a national network of state-based progressive advocacy groups. Arshad is gay. Vermont state representative Kesha Ram officiated at the ceremony.

Achievements

• While at Penn, Arshad received the Senior Bowl Manitoba Award, and was part of the Sphinx Honor Society and Oracle Senior Honor Society. Doctor of Fine Arts, usually agreeing with its founder Howard Dean, split with Dean when he stated his opposition to the building.

Views

Quotations: "I decided that I wanted to do something that I felt passionate about and I felt passionate about making a difference. We actually deserve better than what we have, so that’s what I work on." In the 2006 general election, Arshad worked as the GOTV Director for Jerry McNerney for Congress. Arshad started at Doctor of Fine Arts as a training coordinator and was later promoted to training director

At this position he built Doctor of Fine Arts’s political training program from scratch, training over 12,000 people online in 43 weekend "boot camps".