Dan Schnur is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications, where he teaches courses in political communications and advocacy. Schnur has also taught at Harvard’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University, the University of California – Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy, and the George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. 

He is the founder of the USC/LA Times statewide political poll and currently hosts a weekly webinar for the LA World Affairs Council Town Hall called “Politics in the Time of Coronavirus.” (www.lawac.org). He writes weekly columns for the Allsides political website (www.alsides.com) and the Jewish Journal (www.jewishjournal.com).

Previously, Schnur worked on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns and served as the national director of communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain.

Schnur serves as a board member of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Center for Asians United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE) and as a senior advisor to the Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) leadership training programs. He is the former Los Angeles director for the American Jewish Committee and is an advisor to the Los Angeles Jewish Federation.