| Anat Shenker-Osorio | |
| Birth Name: | Anat Shenker |
| Birth Date: | 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Spouse: | Donaldo Osorio |
| Discipline: | Public Policy |
| Main Interests: | Public Relations, Communication |
| Notable Works: | Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy (2012) |
Anat Shenker-Osorio is an American political strategist and communications consultant. She works in the area of public policy and public relations.[1]
Shenker-Osorio promotes a communication approach named "race-class narrative", which plays upon social class and race differences to promote progressive policies.[1]
Anat Shenker and her family relocated from Israel to the United States; she later changed her surname to Shenker-Osorio after getting married.[2] She attended high school in Madison, Wisconsin.[2]
Shenker later moved to New York City, where she earned a BA in Political Science from Columbia University in 1999.[2] She worked to develop non-governmental organizations in Honduras through grant writing and project management assistance.[2] Shenker-Osorio earned a Master's degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.[1] [2] She also co-founded what became the "Race-Class Narrative Project," with Heather McGhee and Ian Haney López.[3]
In 2018, Shenker-Osorio was made a Fellow of Open Society Foundations.[1] She then founded "ASO Communications," a political polling and strategy group.[4] [1] [5]
In 2012, Shenker wrote Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy, which discussed topics from international arms control to immigration.[4] [6] Her book argues for progressive messaging on the economy and economics and advises on messaging around inequality and wages, helping progressives to use metaphors and other devices to maximum effect.[7] She looked at the language of the first question on minds of people, which was namely the economy. "The genius...of conservatives", she states, "is in not just trumpeting their version of events. They also embed the key ideas that (1) government activity is the problem and (2) economic fluctuations of this magnitude are normal and expected."[8]