Tom Rosshirt has spent more than fifteen years working as a communications director, press secretary and speechwriter at the highest levels of business, government and philanthropy.

As a partner at West Wing Writers, Tom offers his clients a wide range of communications services. He has written a strategic communications plan for one of the nation's most influential non-profits, advised a media mogul on his strategy for several major announcements, done crisis communications for a philanthropist entangled in a public spat, advised an embattled corporation on winning back public opinion, helped a new CEO position himself within his industry, and written speeches, opinion pieces and articles that have shaped the debate on major issues.

Before he and his partners founded West Wing Writers, Tom served in the Clinton White House as a foreign policy speechwriter for the President. Before that, he served as foreign policy spokesman for Vice President Al Gore. Tom also held a dual role in communications and speechwriting in numerous other offices: for North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt, North Carolina House Speaker Dan Blue, and Maryland Congressman (later NAACP President) Kweisi Mfume.

Tom majored in philosophy at Notre Dame and attended Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he earned a master's degree and began doctoral studies in human development. He also spent six years as a high school teacher and coach.

Tom has lived in Austria, Japan, and Iran, and traveled in forty countries. His passions are writing, politics, international relations, the intersection of psychology and religion – and his family. He is married to Molly McUsic, a lawyer. They live in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with their sons Nicholas and Benjamin.