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Riley Roberts

Writer; former chief speechwriter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; veteran of Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.

Riley Roberts is a Senior Writer at West Wing Writers, one of the world’s leading speechwriting and strategic communications firms. He previously served as chief speechwriter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Prior to joining the Obama Administration in 2011, Riley worked as a speechwriter on a prominent U.S. Senate campaign and in the Capitol Hill office of a senator from his home state of Illinois. He first came to Washington, D.C. as an intern for then-Senator Barack Obama. Riley is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an Eagle Scout, and a proud Chicago native (White Sox, not Cubs).