JASON EPSTEIN

SOUTHFIVE STRATEGIES

Jason Epstein founded Southfive Strategies, a Washington, DC-based limited liability company focusing on public relations, consulting, and lobbying, in November 2002. 

For six years Mr. Epstein served as the director of legislative affairs at B’nai B’rith International, the world’s most recognized and respected Jewish organization.  He was responsible for formulating and promoting B’nai B’rith’s agenda in Congress, and for reporting on Capitol Hill events of importance to the American Jewish community.  Mr. Epstein spoke regularly before various audiences interpreting B’nai B’rith policies.  He represented B’nai B’rith before the White House, executive branch agencies, leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, foreign embassies, and other nongovernmental organizations.  Similarly, he represented B’nai B’rith in meetings abroad with government officials, policy experts, and community leaders.

Prior to joining B’nai B’rith, Mr. Epstein worked for New York Republican Congressman and then-Chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman for five years.  As a congressional staffer, Mr. Epstein drafted legislation that became a law rendering aliens connected to terrorist organizations ineligible to receive visas to enter the United States.  In 1996, he received the Gold Medal Award of Service from the United States Commission on the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.

Mr. Epstein obtained a law degree from American University's Washington College of Law and earned a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from AU’s Kogod School of Business.  He is a 1991 graduate from the State University of New York at Albany, where he double-majored in European History and Political Science, and a native of Brooklyn, New York.