Pamela Konde
With over 20 years of legal, public policy, and government relations experience, Pamela Kondé now serves as the Executive Director of Sosne Kondé Policy Solutions, PLLC. In this role, she provides a continuum of services for her clients, including policy analysis, strategic and grassroots organizing, government relations, and legal advocacy.
Unique Advocacy Approach: Ms. Kondé’s unique approach sets her apart from traditional government relations professionals. She focuses on changing long-term policy through bipartisan analysis and problem solving. Her methodical approach scrutinizes complicated problems from every angle, takes into account different perspectives, and drafts outside-the-box policy solutions that address underlying issues. Then, she applies strategic, grassroots, and communications tools to make complicated subjects more consumable to the target audience, which makes her direct lobbying and legal advocacy more effective. Whether she is advocating on the local level to save the natural resources in Tysons Last Forest, organizing a grassroots advocacy campaign to support state funding for schools, managing a Working Group on Health Care to develop a bipartisan health policy for our nation’s cities, or providing a framework for progressive Jews to engage with Israeli politics, Pamela Kondé brings a singular fusion of skills, intelligence, tenacity, and undeniable chutzpa to every advocacy challenge.
Policy & Legislative Experience: Before founding Sosne Kondé Policy Solutions in 2008, Ms. Kondé advocated for cities as part of a policy, legislative, and grassroots team with the National League of Cities. There, she managed high-profile task forces of mayors and city councilors to develop cities’ policies on health, education, and immigration. Working with a national coalition, she coordinated a grassroots campaign that saved the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant. Her experience with state and local leaders complements her earlier experience on Capitol Hill in the Senate (Sen. Harris Wofford – PA) and the House of Representatives (Rep. Michael Forbes – NY1), where Ms. Kondé built bi-partisan coalitions, drafted legislation and successfully moved it forward, and counseled on Banking Committee and Appropriations Committee work. She is most proud of the legislation she drafted to create a permanent Office for Violence Against Women, which was enacted into law after she developed a 50-state coalition and bipartisan list of Congressional sponsors.
Legal Advocacy: Licensed in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., Ms. Kondé began her career as a law firm attorney, successfully negotiating and litigating a range of cases from multi-million-dollar corporate matters to individual civil issues. She has also worked with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Election Commission, and the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps. At Sosne Kondé Policy Solutions, PLLC, Ms. Kondé uses her legal expertise and keen analytical skills to provide a full continuum of advocacy for her clients.
Teaching & Facilitation: But Pam Kondé is not just a lawyer, congressional staffer, policy analyst, facilitator, and grassroots organizer. She is also a teacher. Ms. Kondé served as an Adjunct Professor for George Washington University Law School, teaching Legal Research and Writing and Oral Advocacy classes. Ms. Kondé currently teaches “Israeli Politics” classes to eighth and ninth graders, where they apply active listening and facilitation techniques to discuss Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians. Lastly, Ms. Kondé teaches a writing class for elementary students and also leads an elementary school book club. She is a firm believer that anyone can talk about anything. They just need the facts organized in a consumable manner, an effective framework for discussion, and a good facilitator!
Community Service: Always active in her community, Ms. Kondé serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Government Relations Professionals, where she chairs the Education Committee. Previously, she represented hundreds of thousands of students, parents, and teachers as the Education Chair and then Vice President of Advocacy for the Fairfax County Council of PTAs, expanded membership and programs as PTA President, and advised the City of Alexandria School Board as Director of the School Board Advisory Committee on Substance Abuse and Violence. Ms. Kondé also represented Greater Tysons neighborhoods in her long-time role as Civic Association President and Director of the Neighborhood Coalition to Save Tysons Last Forest. She also served on the Hunter Mill Advisory Budget Committee, Board of Directors of the Tysons Corner Children’s Center, as Vice President of the District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and as Recording Member of the City of Philadelphia’s Youth Aid Panel, an innovative program coordinated by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and Police Department. She has also been involved in political campaigns on the local, state, and national levels.
Education: Ms. Kondé graduated with honors from George Washington University Law School (JD 1995), where she represented battered women in the Domestic Violence Legal Clinic and taught first year students as a Deans’ Fellow. She hold a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated cum laude with a double major in Psychology and in Environmental Studies (BA 1991).
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