+ Jeff’s Bio Jeff holds a Ph.D. in political science from U.C.L.A. and has been involved in public policy in Washington, D.C., since 1976. Before starting his own business in 1991, he was an associate editor of Teacher Magazine, an assistant editor of the National Academy of Sciences' Issues in Science and Technology, and an op/ed and speechwriter for People for the American Way. Porro has also served as a Senate staffer, a State Department official, and an arms control specialist for the Arms Control Association. Since 1991, he has ghosted OpEds for national and international leaders; written speeches, Web content, press releases, newspaper ads, press kits, and annual reports for public interest and corporate clients; and written articles for Science and Technology in Government, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, Cable in the Classroom, and Science. He has been the lead writer for Newsline, the monthly newsletter of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and wrote a monthly online newsletter for America Online. He was senior vice president of M&R Strategic Services, a Washington, D.C., political communications firm, from 1999 to 2002.