Lifetime Achievement Award

Robert Creamer has been a political organizer and strategist for almost four decades. He and his firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, work with many of the country's most significant issue campaigns. He was one of the major architects and organizers of the successful campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security.   He is a consultant to the campaigns to pass universal health care, reform the financial regulatory system, change America's budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform.

 He has also worked on hundreds of electoral campaigns at the local, state and national level, and writes regularly for the Huffington Post. Creamer is married to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Illinois. 

Arianna Huffington calls his recent book, Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, a master's class in electoral politics.