Education
Hiltzik was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and graduated from the Ramaz School. He attended the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and then the Fordham University School of Law.
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Career
After law school, he worked as press secretary and deputy executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee, where he worked on the 1998 campaigns of Chuck Schumer and Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton"s Listening Tour in July 1999. In December 1999, Hiltzik joined Miramax as head of corporate communications, where he was involved in public relations for Miramax Films, Miramax Books, Miramax television, Talk magazine, and philanthropic and political fundraising and crisis management while also serving as personal spokesman for Harvey Weinstein and the company. In 2000, Hiltzik took a brief leave from the Weinsteins to re-join Hillary Clinton"s campaign as the director of Jewish relations.
He soon left politics to rejoin with the Weinstein brothers, after the brothers finalized their deal to leave Miramax.
Hiltzik teamed up with the United Kingdom-based publicity company, Freud Communications, to start up their United States. operations. He went out on his own in early 2008 to start up Hiltzik Strategies.
Hiltzik maintains his political roots advising Jose Antonio Vargas"s DefineAmerican campaign to elevate the national conversation about immigration policy and to pass the DREAM Acting, and Thomas DiNapoli in his successful bid for New York State Comptroller. He was executive producer of the documentary films Paper Clips and Holy Land Hardball.
And co-produced the documentary Connected.
He is also a contributor to the Jewish magazine Tablet.
