Richard Socarides Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Richard Socarides is an American public relations executive, political commentator, writer, and strategist. He was born on November 8, 1954, in New York City. He is the son of the late Arthur Socarides, a psychoanalyst, and the late Eleanor Socarides, a psychoanalyst and professor. Socarides graduated from Harvard College in 1976 and received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1979. He began his career as a lawyer in the New York office of the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In the early 1990s, Socarides became a political strategist and public relations executive. He served as the White House Special Assistant and Senior Adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1999. During his tenure, he was responsible for the President's policy on gay and lesbian issues. In 2000, Socarides founded Equality Matters, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing LGBT rights. He is also a contributing writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Daily Beast. As of 2021, Richard Socarides's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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A portion of Socarides's time in the Clinton administration was portrayed by his (much) younger brother, Charles Socarides Jr., in the 2017 American Broadcasting Company docudrama miniseries When We Rise.

Socarides has held senior positions in the media and entertainment sector and in government and law – as a media relations and communications executive, as a presidential adviser at the White House and as a partner in a New York City law firm.

Socarides was named Head of Public Affairs for Gerson Lehrman Group in August 2013.

Socarides, who is openly gay, was the founding president of Equality Matters in 2011. He is the son of Charles Socarides (1922–2005), a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who was an outspoken critic of the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. In 1992 the elder Socarides co-founded NARTH, in response to the American Psychoanalytic Association's 1992 decision to change its position on homosexuality.

Socarides served as Of Counsel to the New York law firm of Brady Klein & Weissman, from 2009 to 2013.

In 2000, Socarides was Senior Vice President at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery Strategic Communications, a New York consulting firm. He provided media relations, branding, marketing, public policy and crisis management advice to domestic and international Fortune 100 companies, principally in the media and entertainment sectors, including American Online, NBC and Bertelsmann, among others.

From 1993 to 1999, Socarides worked as a White House advisor in a variety of senior positions. He served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Public Liaison and also as chief operating officer of the 50th Anniversary Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He coordinated communications and event strategy, policy and community outreach relating to key initiatives and represented the President and articulated administration policy in public appearances.

Socarides served on national political campaigns, as Deputy Director for Public Liaison for Clinton/Gore '96 and as Political Director and Senior Advisor for U.S. Senator Tom Harkin in 1991–92. He also served on Tom Harkin's U.S. Senate staff.

From 1984 to 1990, Socarides was an associate, then a partner, at the New York law firm of Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld. He graduated from Hofstra University School of Law and Antioch College. Socarides has served on a wide variety of non-profit boards, including those of organizations devoted to civil rights, historic preservation and urban renewal, music and philanthropy.

Richard Socarides (born November 8, 1954) is head of global corporate communications and government affairs for Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). Previously, he led communications at New Line Cinema and has held other senior media jobs at Time Warner, AOL and in government and politics. He is also an American Democratic political strategist, writer for The New Yorker, TV commentator and a New York attorney. He was a White House adviser under United States President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1999 in a variety of senior positions, including as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser for Public Liaison. He worked on legal, policy and political issues and served as principal adviser to Clinton on gay and lesbian civil rights issues. Under Clinton, he was chief operating officer of the 50th Anniversary Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Socarides also worked as special assistant to Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).