PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Luke Klipp offers five years of experience working in local government, as both a senior policy analyst for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Office of the Budget and Legislative Analyst and as a legislative aide for a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. As a policy analyst, he reviewed legislation for its fiscal impacts, analyzed
numerous city department budgets, assisted in management
and performance audits, and managed and mentored new staff.
Luke has worked for three different nonprofit organizations in different capacities, helping organize an annual national conference at one nonprofit, creating lobbying materials and bringing together coalitions on federal legislation at another, and developing financial models to clean up internal finances at the third organization. Luke has also worked for a public union to identify opportunities for several local jurisdictions to enhance their revenues, and he has served several campaigns, including managing one candidate's campaign for local office and educating key political organizations around an issue campaign.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Luke Klipp served two years as the Co-Director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the New Leaders Council and currently serves as the Western Regional Director, providing direction to chapter directors in five cities. In 2008, Luke ran for local elected office - the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee - and finished the best of any first-time candidate in the race. In 2009, Luke co-founded Gay for Good-San Francisco, which connects LGBT people with monthly volunteer opportunities. He was President of the San Francisco Young Democrats (SFYD) for two years (July 2006 - July 2008), in which time he started the club's now annual tradition of a major fundraiser, and he organized the club's first-ever candidate debate, for California State Senate District 3. In addition to a total of seven years on the board of SFYD, Luke also served on the board of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club for seven years.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
In 2004, Luke earned his Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. He has his Bachelors of Arts in Music from the University of Michigan.
PERSONAL
Luke is a resident of Los Angeles, California, to which he moved in the summer of 2010 from San Francisco, California. Luke grew up in Michigan and has no dogs or other pets of which to speak, although he certainly would love to.
