Jamal Simmons | Co-Founder

Jamal Simmons is president of New Future Communications, based in Washington, DC. He has been a senior aide to several Democratic political candidates, serving most recently as traveling press secretary to former 2004 presidential candidates U.S. Senator Bob Graham and Retired General Wesley K. Clark. He was also communications director for U. S. Senator Max Cleland's reelection campaign.

During the 2000 presidential campaign, Simmons managed media relations in 40 states for Vice President Al Gore before spending four weeks in West Palm Beach as a Gore spokesman during the Florida recount effort. Prior to that, he served as chief of staff to U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D, MI) and as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration under U.S. Trade Representative and Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor. Simmons got his start in politics and communications by managing logistics for dozens of national reporters while traveling with President Bill Clinton during his successful 1992 campaign.

Simmons also has extensive international experience. Throughout the Clinton Administration, the White House called upon him to help create and manage public events in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia for both President Clinton and Vice President Gore. Recently he promoted an internationally telecast, six-hour charity concert produced by Quincy Jones in Rome that was attended by 500,000 people.

Raised in Detroit, Michigan, Simmons received his B.A degree from Morehouse College and his Master of Public Policy degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard University. He has been a guest on several cable and network news programs including ABC News' World News Tonight, Fox News Channel's Hannity & Combs and The O’Reilly Factor, MSNBC's Hardball and Scarborough Country and CNBC's Capitol Report. His opinion writings have been published in major national news outlets including The New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The American Prospect Online and the Detroit Free Press.