Sam Myers Jr.

Sam has spent three decades building advocacy, communications, and political infrastructure at the highest levels of American public life — across three presidential administrations (Clinton-Gore, Obama-Biden, and Biden-Harris) and seven presidential campaign cycles, with a deep, cross-sector network to show for it.

He has advised Cabinet Secretaries, U.S. Presidents, Members of Congress, and CEOs, led presidential operations and grassroots engagement all across the U.S., and spent the majority of the Obama Administration as White House Liaison to the U.S. Department of Education.

He led Burson's Direct Impact, the largest grassroots and grasstops practice in the world, steering it through a global pandemic without losing a client or a target, and scaling its offerings well beyond traditional field work. He built on that success founding and launching Place Public Affairs in 2024.

Today, as founder of Place Fractional, Sam brings that same systems-building approach to organizations that need C-suite-level strategy and communications leadership but can't yet fund the department, by expanding capacity through strategic AI integration.

Among his clients, Sam currently serves as Fractional Head of Strategy & External Affairs to a national arts and culture association, where his work is credited by its President & CEO as the vision behind the organization's reframed mission, and its strongest stakeholder expansion and fundraising results in the organization's history.

“Everything the organization is driving this year is in service of moving the performing arts field from scarcity to thriving. And it all traces back to Sam's vision.”