| Herbie Ziskend | |
| Office: | White House Principal Deputy Communications Director |
| 1Blankname: | Director |
| 1Namedata: | Ben LaBolt |
| Term Start: | August 2024 |
| Term End: | Present |
| Predecessor: | Kristen Orthman |
| Office1: | White House Deputy Communications Director |
| 1Blankname1: | President |
| Term Start1: | August 2022[1] |
| Term End1: | August 2024 |
| Office2: | Senior Advisor for Communications for the Vice President |
| 1Blankname2: | Vice President |
| 1Namedata2: | Kamala Harris |
| Term Start2: | March 2022[2] |
| Term End2: | August 2022[3] |
| Successor2: | Stephanie Young |
| Office3: | Deputy Communications Director for the Vice President |
| 1Blankname3: | Vice President |
| 1Namedata3: | Kamala Harris |
| Term Start3: | January 20, 2021 |
| Term End3: | March 2022 |
| Successor3: | Rachel Palermo |
| Education: | Cornell University (BA),Harvard Kennedy School |
| Party: | Democratic |
Herbie Ziskend is an American political advisor and the White House Principal Deputy Communications Director in the Biden administration.[4] He previously served as a senior communications advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris from 2021 to 2022,[5] and as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.
Ziskend earned a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.[6] [7]
Ziskend was a campaign staffer on the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign and later served as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.[8]
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Ziskend, Eric Lesser and Arun Chaudhary organized a seder during the campaign.[9] The tradition followed the Obama administration into the White House as the official White House Passover Seder.[10]
After leaving the White House, Ziskend worked as chief of staff to Arianna Huffington at the Huffington Post Media Group in New York City, and as the director of public policy and rise of rest investments at Revolution LLC, an investment firm led by AOL co-founder Steve Case. Ziskend also worked as a senior vice president at SKDKnickerbocker.[11] [12]