OSPIRG Staff

Gary supervises all of the activities of OSPIRG's Washington, DC office, which OSPIRG shares with the other PIRGs around the country in order to allow us to promote solutions at the federal level.  Prior to his current position, Gary led the advocacy and research for OSPIRG’s Federal Democracy Program where he specialized in campaign finance, government accountability and election reform. During that time, he was a leading voice in fighting rollbacks to the nation’s campaign finance standards and promoting reform of the Congressional ethics and lobbying standards. Mr. Kalman is the author of several reports on money and politics and has testified before Congress, presented at national conferences and has been quoted in and appeared on national and local media including The Washington Post, USA Today, Fox News and MSNBC.
 
Prior to joining the PIRGs, Mr. Kalman worked with a team of producers to develop the nationally syndicated NPR program, Justice Talking. In a partnership with the New York Times, NPR and the University of Pennsylvania, he led the development and design of Justice Learning, an award-winning Internet-based civics program recognized at the 2006 Webby Awards.  He is a co-editor of The U.S. Constitution: What is Says, What it Means (Oxford University Press). A graduate of Clark University, Mr. Kalman has also served as Deputy Director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, a political campaign consultant and as an instructor at LaSalle University where he lectured on nonprofit advocacy and development.