Strong relationships with key Democratic committee staff in the House and Senate. Health care and education policy authority. Adept at synchronizing member interests for large coalitions.
Sage Schaftel helps clients develop policy priorities and spearheads advocacy efforts on health care, education, labor and tax issues. Sage builds relationships between companies, policymakers and congressional committee staff. She puts pen to paper to draft collateral materials that communicate clients’ perspectives, including talking points, one pagers, public comments and advocacy letters. In a rapidly evolving policy landscape, Sage has an innate ability to “issue spot,” identifying seemingly minute developments at the federal and state level and advising on the potential risk or opportunity they pose to clients. She then devises strategies to capitalize on the moment and impact policy outcomes.
At Brownstein, Sage serves as assistant executive director of the Early Care and Education Consortium (ECEC), a non-profit alliance of the leading multi-state providers, state child care associations and premier educational services providers representing over 7,000 programs across the country. She is a key contributor in the development of the organization’s strategic plan and leads efforts to foster relationships between child care providers and political stakeholders at the state and federal level. Her work has directly led to multiple policy wins for education and child care clients in several states.
Prior to joining Brownstein, Sage spent two years working with former Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Legal Counsel, Office of Boards and Commissions and Office of Community Partnerships and served as a policy intern at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.