Martha Coven
brings to her consulting work more than 20 years of federal policy experience in the executive branch, legislative branch, and nonprofit sector.
She served as the Office of Management and Budget Agency Review Team Lead for the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition in 2020-21 and in the Obama White House from 2009-14, as a Special Assistant to the President at the Domestic Policy Council and a Program Associate Director at the Office of Management and Budget.
Before joining the Administration, she spent nearly a decade in the nonprofit sector, as a Senior Legislative Associate at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and an Esther Peterson Fellow at Consumers Union.
She began her career on Capitol Hill, on the staff of a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee and in the office of the House Democratic Leader.
Coven is also the author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age, published by Princeton University Press in 2022. For several years, she taught courses in communications and domestic policy at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, as the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer, and at New York University as an Adjunct Professor of Law.
She holds a B.A. in economics and a J.D. from Yale University.