Susan Blad Seldin, 41; Democratic Organizer Started Strategy Firm
Susan Blad Seldin, 41, former Democratic Party grass-roots organizer who co-founded FieldWorks, a Washington-based campaign consulting and political strategy firm, died Saturday at UC San Francisco Medical Center.
Blad Seldin had developed graft-versus-host disease after a successful bone marrow transplant to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Blad Seldin started FieldWorks in 2001 with Laurie Moskowitz, a former colleague from the Democratic National Committee. She gave strategic advice to the Sierra Club and the California Democratic Party, among others.
She was born in Orange and, after studying political communications at Cal State Sacramento, she worked with the California Democratic Party.
She also was deputy campaign manager for party Chairman Phil Angelides’ first, unsuccessful, race for state treasurer in 1994.
That year, she moved to the Washington area to work for the Democratic National Committee.
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