Housing and Urban Development

Bio, via LinkedIn:

Richard H. Feen is a senior executive speechwriter, and corporate and federal agency strategic communications director. As part of his duties, he is directly responsible for drafting and editing CEO or Cabinet Secretary speeches, testimony, op-eds, and financial presentations, as well as for developing and directing the executive writing team, and managing senior executive communications strategy, training, and venue placement. Over the years he has served a number of Cabinet Secretaries and CEO’s of top Fortune 500 Companies -- including Secretaries Elaine Chao and Andrew Card, as well as telcom industry leader, Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon, and Co-founder of the Home Depot, Arthur Blank. Portfolio includes duty at the White House as a staff member of the President’s Commission on Privatization, as well as Director of Public Affairs and Community Outreach for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, then under the direction of the late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. Also experienced journalist, having worked as a broadcast journalist for the U.S. government foreign broadcast service, the Voice of America, and as a member of the Board of Contributors of the Miami Herald -- winner of two outstanding public service awards for nationally syndicated opinion-editorial columns, including onsite coverage of the Gulf War. PhD, MALD, MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts/Harvard. Theology degree candidate at the Harvard Divinity School. Specialties: Executive speech writing Executive placement and presentation training Corporate communications writing and editing (investor relations presentations, annual reports, blogs, op-eds, etc.) Government relations and public policy advocacy Public relations strategy and corporate-wide messaging Reputation management and crisis communications Employee and marketing communications