Brett Weisel

Brett is the global policy and advocacy lead with the Early Childhood Development Action Network. He is an experienced government relations professional, trainer, and advocate who has successfully developed and executed innovative US and global issue campaigns and advocacy programs. During his career, Brett has built advocacy programs for several nonprofit organizations, led the planning and implementation of campaigns across a range of policy issues, and pioneered inventive strategies to assess, measure, and evaluate campaigns and advocacy organizations. Brett served as Director of Advocacy for Feeding America where he was responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing Feeding America’s advocacy strategy including advocate recruitment and development, grassroots mobilization, capacity building training, content development, strategic planning, and impact measurement. He guided Feeding America through major legislation including two Farm Bills and Child Nutrition Reauthorization. Prior to ECDAN in 2021, he worked at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, a Program of the Tobacco Free Kids, as the Associate Director of Capacity Building and Training. His role was to strengthen the advocacy capacity of global grantees and partners to advance public health policy campaigns, develop systematic tools and processes to evaluate campaign impact, and plan strategic advocacy initiatives. Brett has a Masters in Applied Politics from American University and a Bachelors in Political Science from Villanova University.