Before being named to Crain’s New York Business “40 Under Forty” in 2012 or being recognized in City and State’s “Power 100” lists in 2014, 2016, and 2017, Neal Kwatra established a long and successful career in political campaign strategies.
Neal Kwatra’s impact on political campaigns started as the Deputy Director of Strategic Affairs for UNITE HERE, the United States hotel workers’ union. It was while with UNITE HERE that Kwatra founded the union’s hotel development program, which has been easily UNITE HERE’s most successful program for implementing new workers into the union.
Between 2008 and 2011, Neal Kwatra worked as the Director of Political and Strategic Affairs at the New York Hotel Trades Council—the nation’s largest local union of hotel employees. He helped turn the 30,000 members of HTC into a political juggernaut.