Big Ideas Fest Speakers

Hal Plotkin

Hal Plotkin

Plotkin is the Senior Policy Adviser in the office of the Under Secretary of Education in the United States Department of Education. Previously, Plotkin served as president of the board of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s Governing Board of Trustees. Prior to joining the federal government, Plotkin was a Silicon Valley-based journalist and commentator, a founding editor of public radio’s Marketplace program and a former columnist for CNBC.com and SFGate.com, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle.