DDM Strategies

A full-service communications shop to help you thrive in today’s landscape.

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We all need a little help now and then. Joe Crocker gets by with a little help from his friends. With more than 20 years of experience in advocacy and strategic communications, DDM Strategies is available to not only help you get by, but to help you thrive.

I’m Dan Desai Martin and I’ve worked as an advocate, a communications consultant, and a journalist. I have expertise in national politics, state & local politics, voting rights, health care, climate change, reproductive health, education, and many other issues.

Through many years working at both 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 nonprofit organizations, I am well-versed in coalition-building, paid and earned media, grant writing, budgets, and consultant management.

I’m also an author. I’ve written one manuscript and I am working on additional projects.

What do you need to thrive? Odds are, DDM Strategies can help. I’ve written website copy, press releases, blog entries, op-eds, reports, news articles, grant proposals, grant reports, and helped prepare high-level staff for national media interviews. I’m active on social media (primarily Twitter and Facebook, with a burgeoning Instagram presence), and built this website using WordPress.

I want to help you and your organization not only meet the needs of the moment but surpass expectations.

If you are interested in working with me, please send an email with “Communications Consultant” in the subject line to: Dan (at) DanDesaiMartin (dot) com. Let’s chat. Let’s get to know each other. And if we’re a good fit, let’s thrive together.

Want to know a little more about me? Check out my resume. And here is a small selection of my writing:

Op-Eds:

I have ghostwritten op-eds for a wide range of elected officials and prominent leaders, including: City Councilmembers, Mayors, State Representatives, State Senators, Secretaries of State, and CEOs. Topics include broadband access, climate change, voting rights, abortion care, and much more. I am happy to share samples with those interested in working together.

The NewDEAL Leaders:

I have written a number of policy papers, press releases, and other materials. Topics cover a wide range of issues important to elected officials on the local, state, and federal level, including: Democracy, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Climate Change, Public Safety, and the relationship between federal and state officials. I am happy to share samples with those interested in working together.

The American Independent:

HEALTH CARE:
- Most Rural Hospital Closures Are In States That Refuse To Expand Medicaid (February 6, 2020.)
- GOP Refusal to Expand Medicaid Puts Rural Areas At Risk During Pandemic (March 19, 2020.)
- Prescription Drug Costs Are Skyrocketing. The Senate Isn’t Doing Anything About It. (July 13, 2020.)
VOTING:
- Democrats in Congress Introduce Bill to Stop GOP Voter Suppression (May 12, 2020.)
- Michigan Voters Will Now Be Able to Vote Safely This November (May 19, 2020.)
- Iowa Governor Has Yet to Deliver on Promise to Restore Voting Rights for Thousands (July 15, 2020.)
CAMPAIGNS:
- Arizona Senator Hit with Yet Another Fine For Yet Another Election Law Violation (August 21, 2019. I was the first to break this story on a second violation by then-Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ).)
- GOP Senator Loaned Her Own Campaign $5 million — And She’s Charging Interest (February 5, 2020. One day after I broke this story, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) refiled paperwork and no longer charged her campaign interest on the loan.)

INTERVIEWS:
- ‘We Are Hungry to Win’: Democratic Leaders Can’t Wait for November (August 31, 2018. An interview with Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), chair of the moderate New Democrat Coalition.)
- ‘They’re Afraid of Me’: Nancy Pelosi Smacks Down GOP’s Desperate Attacks (August 13, 2018. An interview with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.)
- Nancy Pelosi to Parkland students: ‘You give us hope’ (March 25, 2018. An interview with students from Marjory Stoneman Douglass following the mass shooting in Parkland, FL.)