Toby Chaudhuri

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Toby Chaudhuri directs communications at the Campaign for America’s Future’s Washington headquarters.
He works with labor and progressive organizations, political campaigns and people in public office to develop
messages and strategies to communicate with the public and influence public policy.

A member of Generation X, Chaudhuri arrived at college about 15 years ago disillusioned, doubting politics
could make a difference. He studied political science and economics and completed research later used by
U.S. Senators to protect sick and hungry children from right-wing budget cuts. As a result, Chaudhuri became
involved in local and statewide political campaigns, realizing in his work that he could make a difference.

Since then, Chaudhuri has managed more than $30 million in state and federal campaigns and has worked at
the helm of national media operations. He fought corruption to enact historic campaign finance reforms
directing strategic communications at Common Cause; took on corporate polluters to provide safe drinking
water and clean air as a political appointee to President Bill Clinton; and worked to elect several principled
state and federal candidates including serving as deputy press secretary to Vice President Al Gore's 2000
presidential campaign.

Before joining the Campaign for America’s Future, Chaudhuri worked hard to protect children as civil rights
leader Marian Wright Edelman’s spokesman and media strategist at the Children’s Defense Fund.
Chaudhuri also worked hard to promote multicultural civic engagement leading a community-based campaign
called “Mass Desi Vote” that turned out tens of thousands of Massachusetts Asian American voters in the
2002 midterm election. The program he developed was adapted to engage over 1.5-million South Asian
American voters across the country for the 2004 elections.

Chaudhuri has appeared in many major daily newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington
Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and The Times of India and as a commentator on National Public
Radio, the BBC and CNN-IBN. He has been profiled in The Boston Globe, National Journal, Campaigns &
Elections Magazine and India Abroad.

Chaudhuri did his undergraduate studies in economics and political science at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and completed fellowships in mathematics and econometrics at the Indian Institute
of Technology, Delhi and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Born and raised in
Concord, Mass., Chaudhuri now lives in Arlington, Va.