Background
She is the daughter of the late Henry Grunwald, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine and Beverly Suser. She grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and on Martha"s Vineyard.
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Mandy Grunwald
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Education
She attended the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York, and then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University.
Career
Mandy is the sister of the author Lisa Grunwald and movie producer Peter Grunwald. Upon graduation she worked at the Sawyer-Miller Group in New New York Mandy Grunwald subsequently founded and became president of Grunwald Communications in Washington, District of Columbia Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she served as media consultant for three successful Senate campaigns for Daniel Patrick Moynihan (presumably 1982, 1988, and 1994), as well as for the Ruth Messinger"s losing effort in the 1997 New York City mayoral election.
In 1999 she served as a broker across the frosty relations between the retiring Moynihan and Hillary Clinton.
The latter would later successfully gain the former"s seat in the 2000 New York senatorial election. She also worked for Gifford Miller"s Democratic primary campaign in New York City"s 2005 mayoral race, who ultimately lost.
Grunwald"s position as a White House advisor reportedly faded after 1995, when she and others were supplanted by Dick Morris according to the New York Times. However, in addition to acting as an important intermediary between the then Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Hillary Clinton for the 2000 New York senatorial election, Grunwald was appointed the head of campaign media relations for the 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
In the 2012 election, Grunwald worked on the successful election campaigns for Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Tammy Baldwin, two of the toughest Senate races in the country.
Tammy defeated Tommy Thompson, a four time Governor of Wisconsin, who was favored in the Senate race and Elizabeth defeated Scott Brown, who was the only incumbent Senator to lose his seat in the November 2012 election. Braver. Taller. Meaner. Stronger."" Grunwald is believed to have been the inspiration for the character "Daisy Green" in the roman à clef of the 1992 presidential campaign, Primary Colors, published by "Anonymous" in 1996.
In the 1998 film Primary Colors, the character based on her was portrayed by Maura Tierney.
She is also partially the inspiration for The West Wing character Mandy Hampton.
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Gaining prominence through her work on the successful 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign, in which she was director of advertising, Grunwald made television appearances defending Bill Clinton, and helped produce The Manitoba From Hope, the biographical film that was the centerpiece of the 1992 Democratic National Convention.
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The Washington Post identified her as one of the key members of "Hillaryland", Hillary Rodham Clinton"s closest advisors beginning with her First Lady days.
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