Jon Favreau
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Jonathan Edward Favreau (born June 2, 1981) is an American political commentator and the former Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama.Favreau attended the College of the Holy Cross, graduating as a valedictorian.
He earned scholastic awards in college and worked on and directed community and civic organizations, as well as leadership positions.
After graduating, he began working with John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004, gathering talk radio news for the campaign and was promoted to deputy speechwriter.
He first met Barack Obama while working for Kerry. Favreau, a writer who wrote for Obama in 2005, was recommended by Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs to Obama as a speechwriter.
Soon after Obama's election to the Senate, Favreau was hired as Obama's speech writer.
Obama and Favreau grew close, and Obama referred to him as his "mind reader." During his 2008 presidential election campaign, he joined Obama on the campaign trail with him.
He was appointed Director of Speechwriting by the White House in 2009 and began co-originating liberal media firm Crooked Media with fellow Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett in January 2017 and began co-hosting the political podcast Pod Save America with Vietor, Lovett, and Dan Pfeiffer.
Early life
Favreau was born at Winchester Hospital and raised in North Reading, Massachusetts, the son of Lillian (née DeMarkis), a schoolteacher, and Mark Favreau. His father is of French Canadian descent, and his mother is of Greek descent. Robert Favreau, his grandfather, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was dubbed by Favreau as a "New England Republican." Favreau graduated from the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross in 2003 as the class valedictorian with a degree in political science.
He served as treasurer and debate committee chairman for the College Democrats at Holy Cross, and he studied classical piano. He served on the Welfare Solidarity Project from 1999 to 2000, eventually becoming its director. Favreau began working with Habitat for Humanity and a University of Massachusetts Amherst campaign in 2001 to introduce cancer patients to visitors.
In 2002, he launched an initiative to assist unemployed people in improving their résumés and interview skills. He also received a Harry S. Truman Scholarship in 2002; winning the Vanicelli Award; being named the 2001 Charles A. Dana Scholar; memberships in Pi Sigma Alpha, the College Honor Society; and Alpha Kappa Delta. He worked as an editor on his college newspaper, and he earned more money selling newspapers as a telemarketer during summers in college, as well as interneing in John Kerry's offices.
Personal life
Emily Black, the niece of federal judge Timothy Black, was married at her family's holiday home in Biddeford Pool, Maine, on June 17, 2017. They have a son who was born in 2020.
Favreau received an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from his alma mater, Holy Cross, where he also delivered the commencement address on May 23, 2014.
He is the brother of actor Andy Favreau.