Associate Director, Government Affairs
(916) 440-1130
lesher@ppic.org

David Lesher is Associate Director, Government Affairs at PPIC and is based in PPIC’s Sacramento Center. Previously, he directed the New America Foundation’s California Program, which sponsors a wide range of research, writing, and events on issues of critical importance to the future of California. His primary responsibilities at NAF included recruiting and guiding New America’s California fellows, orchestrating high-profile public events throughout the state, and forging strategic partnerships with other California-based policy organizations. Prior to that, he covered politics and government for 15 years at the Los Angeles Times, where his roles ranged from lead reporter in the Sacramento bureau to assistant national editor on the paper’s presidential campaign desk.