Trooper Sanders, CK’91

Trooper Sanders is Domestic Policy Advisor to former President Bill Clinton and the William J. Clinton Foundation. Previously, Trooper founded Time to Vote, a voting rights initiative that worked leading up to the 2004 presidential election to encourage employers to provide flexible Election Day leave to employees from traditionally disenfranchised communities and to educate voters about their rights under state law to take time off to vote. He also served as director of communications at the American Constitution Society, a national association of progressive and moderate lawyers. Before that, he lived in Germany and worked for the anti-corruption NGO Transparency International and the social investment fund Ashoka. Following the September 11, 2001, attack on America, Trooper helped create and directed HOPE Coalition, a social enterprise providing emergency economic counseling to people who lost their jobs in the recession following the tragedy. He also served as a White House policy advisor to former Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore working on issues ranging from mental health and homelessness to school safety and crime. Before joining the Clinton administration, Trooper worked in London as a policy analyst at the International Business Leaders Forum, an initiative founded by HRH The Prince of Wales to promote corporate social responsibility in emerging and developing economies. Trooper has appeared on BBC World and Air America Radio and has been quoted in The Christian Science Monitor, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Trooper is a graduate of the University of Michigan and London School of Economics, has varying degrees of competence in German and French and has studied Arabic.