PERSON: Jeff Weaver

Writer

Jeffrey P. Weaver (born 1966) is an American political strategist who served as campaign manager for the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign and an advisor for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. He formerly served as the campaign manager for Sanders’s 2006 United States Senate election and as chief of staff in Sanders’s House and Senate offices. In August 2016, Weaver was named president of Our Revolution, a political organization created by Sanders, a position he held until June 2017. In May 2018, his book How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution That’s Taking Back Our Country was published.

Weaver graduated from Missisquoi Valley Union High School in Swanton, Vermont in 1983. He then attended Boston University as an undergraduate ROTC candidate.

After being suspended, Weaver left Boston University and later graduated from the University of Vermont. He then earned a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center.

>> Wikipedia