Evan Ottenfeld

Senior Communications Manager


Evan joined Issue One in 2016, first as digital communications coordinator, and has subsequently been digital & design coordinator and communications specialist. Before joining Issue One, Evan was the online program associate for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. Before that, he worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative intern, as well as at a congressional district office in Illinois where he was the district director intern. He was also the administration and programs intern at RefugeeOne, a refugee placement organization in Chicago, where he worked on projects with the board of directors and the executive director. He attended Indiana University, where he earned a B.A. in political science and Spanish, and studied abroad for an academic year in Madrid, Spain.