MARK GLAZE is a Principal at The Raben Group, LLC, bringing more than a decade of experience in politics, communications and law to clients whose interests lie at the intersection of those fields. He specializes in helping those clients achieve public policy goals by crafting strategies to influence the audiences they care about – policymakers, the press, and the public.

Before joining the Raben team, he led Glaze Strategic, where he worked with a wide range of organizations to reach those key audiences through effective strategic communications, including direct outreach to national media, targeted placement of opinion pieces and legislative lobbying. His writing for clients has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Time, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Orlando Sentinel, the Portland Oregonian, Roll Call and many other journals.

Mark also directed the government ethics and public affairs programs of the Campaign Legal Center, a government watchdog group. In that capacity, he organized the strategy that led the House Ethics Committee to admonish House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) for improperly pressuring a colleague to change his vote on a key piece of legislation - the first such reprimand of a House leader in a decade. Mark also assembled and helped lead the Congressional Ethics Coalition, a group of nine leading national watchdog groups that work for reform and proper enforcement of the congressional ethics rules.

Mark also served as assistant counsel and communications director at the Campaign Legal Center, where he served on the legal team that successfully defended the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act from constitutional challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court. As the first employee of the new organization, he launched a communications effort that led Roll Call newspaper to name the new group an “industry leader.”

Prior to entering the nonprofit world, Mark practiced law at the New York law firm Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells. His work in the firm’s venerable media law department focused on matters involving First Amendment principles, including libel defense and pre-publication libel counseling for media clients.

Mark served from 1993 to 1996 as an aide to Rep. David Skaggs (D-CO), working primarily on social issues relating to the Congressman’s role on the House Appropriations Committee.

Mark was an academic advisor to the 2005 Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, and served as an on-air Democratic strategist for Logo-CBS News on election matters in 2006.

He is an honors graduate of the George Washington University Law School and Colorado College and a Truman Foundation Scholar.

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