Daniel R. Porterfield

Daniel R. Porterfield (born August 19, 1961) is an American nonprofit executive, academic administrator, and government official serving as the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. Porterfield previously served as the 15th president of Franklin & Marshall College, senior vice president for strategic development and English professor at Georgetown University, and communications director and chief speechwriter for the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary during the Clinton Administration. Early life and education A native of Baltimore, Maryland, where he was raised by a single mother, Porterfield graduated from Loyola Blakefield, a Jesuit college prep school, in 1979. In 1983, he received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgetown University. As a student at Georgetown, Porterfield founded the D.C. Schools Project, through which college students tutored immigrant or first-generation children and their parents in English-language skills. He was also instrumental in creating the After School Kids program, which trains college students to tutor at-risk youth in the District of Columbia. Both programs are overseen by the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, and Service at Georgetown.