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 Brad Koplinski was elected to Harrisburg City Council in November 2007. He came to Harrisburg in the Summer of 2004, to run the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign for the Central Pennsylvania region. In his work with that effort, he fell in love with Harrisburg and its people, and made a commitment to remain in his adopted home.
After growing up in Kankakee, Illinois, Brad attended the University of Illinois at Chicago. After graduating from the New England School of Law in 1995, Brad worked in Washington, DC at the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and for the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service. As of January 2010 Brad Koplinski is the chair of Building and Housing Committee.
Brad has helped to ensure the efficient and effective use of taxpayer money by reviewing state agencies and spending as a Policy Analyst in the Department of the Auditor General. After his work there, Brad was proud to serve on both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaigns in 2008. During the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, he was then-Senator Clinton’s Central Pennsylvania Political Director. After that, Brad was the Comptroller for President Obama’s Pennsylvania campaign, responsible for overseeing a budget of over $12 million for 84 offices and over 400 employees.
Knowing that our city is made up of great community organizations, Brad has worked with several of them, including the YWCA Legal Clinic, the Nativity School and Midtown Crime Watch. He is also member of the Greater Harrisburg NAACP, Friends of Midtown and Harrisburg Young Professionals.
Additionally, Brad is the author of Hats In The Ring: Conversations with Presidential Candidates in which he interviewed 28 former presidential candidates on their experiences of running for the Oval Office. He has also been a contestant on the game show Jeopardy! and has been an Adjunct Professor at Central Pennsylvania College.
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