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A member of The Mellman Group since
1999, Nathan Henry has extensive experience conducting surveys, focus
groups and ad testing for a wide variety of candidates and political
organizations, including Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry,
the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, Senator Frank Lautenberg, Congressmen Jim Langevin and Ben
Chandler, and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.
In June 2007, Henry
opened a Mellman Group office in Madison,
Wisconsin. Since moving to the Midwest in 2005,
Henry has focused on building the firm’s portfolio in Wisconsin and surrounding states. In 2006, Henry helped re-elect
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and conducted independent-expenditure
research on behalf of newly-elected Congressman Steve Kagen (WI-8). In the non-profit realm, Henry has
directed research on behalf of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American
Cancer Society, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Black
Health Coalition, the Minnesota Institute of Public Health, the Illinois
Coalition Against Tobacco, and nearly a dozen county public health
departments in Minnesota.
During his time at The
Mellman Group, Henry has developed substantial expertise on
tobacco-control issues. He has
conducted more than 50 surveys and focus groups at the national, state,
county and municipal level for clients such as the Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and numerous state
and local anti-tobacco coalitions.
In addition to his anti-tobacco work, Henry has conducted research
for several other non-profit organizations and corporations, including
the Sierra Club, the Trust for Public
Land, Dr.
Pepper/7Up, T-Mobile, and the American Medical Association’s Office of
Alcohol and Other Drugs.
Prior to working at The
Mellman Group, Henry served as Field Director on two Congressional
campaigns in Wisconsin, and as a finance
assistant on a U.S. Senate campaign in Delaware. He also served as a policy advisor and
legislative aide to former Representative Doris Hanson in the Wisconsin
State Assembly, working primarily on issues dealing with the state
budget, tax policy and the state’s budget stabilization, or “rainy day”
fund.
Originally from Wilmington, Delaware,
Henry graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison with a
degree in Political Science, and studied at Eötvös
Loránd University
in Budapest, Hungary, where he researched
post-communist social and economic transformations in former Soviet-bloc
countries. While in Hungary, Henry helped edit and organize a
publication called “Fortifying the Foundations” for the Institute of International
Education, which detailed the activities of US-funded
NGOs involved in the democratization process in Central and Eastern Europe.
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