Jesse Salazar heads the Central East office of Senator Robert Casey and serves as his Special Assistant on national Latino and LGBT affairs. Before joining the Senator’s team, he served as PA Communications Director for SEIU’s successful campaign to get Senator Specter to support healthcare reform. He has advised the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament on e-Democracy and also served as a member of the New Media team during the Obama-Biden Transition Project. Jesse served as Latino and LGBT Vote Director for the Obama campaign in the general and in a number of director positions during the primary season. He began his work in politics, when PA Governor Ed Rendell appointed him to serve as a Commissioner of Latino Affairs for the Commonwealth. He is a Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action. Jesse graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in European History and Political Science, and he left the history PhD program at Princeton University with a masters.  For fun, Jesse plays soccer in a number of leagues/tournaments and enjoys rock-climbing.