PERSON: Stuart Stevens

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Stuart Stevens is an American author and political consultant. He was the cofounder of Washington, D.C. - based political media consultancy Stevens & Schriefer Group (with Russell Schriefer). In 2013, he became a founding partner in Strategic Partners & Media. He served as a top strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign in addition to several other significant presidential campaigns over the course of his career. He later joined The Lincoln Project, a Republican Never Trump group for the 2020 United States presidential election.

Stevens, who is from Jackson, Mississippi, grew up in the southern United States in the 1960s. He felt that the Democratic Party members he knew consisted predominantly of “good ol’ boy” segregationists; he chose instead to join the Republican Party. He attended Colorado College (BA English, 1974), Pembroke College, Oxford (study abroad English, 1972), Middlebury College (MA English, 1976), and UCLA Film School (studied MFA Film). Stevens is an extreme sports enthusiast who participates in triathlons, has completed the Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race, and once skied the last 100 miles to the North Pole.

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