Jill Alper is President of Alper Strategies + Media and a nationally recognized strategist with experience at the highest levels of politics and advocacy. An award-winning consultant, she develops integrated strategies and media campaigns that help businesses, candidates, and nonprofit organizations engage key audiences and advance high-stakes policy priorities. She is a lecturer at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Alper previously served as political director and coordinated campaign director of the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton administration. She has worked on campaigns in all 50 states and nine presidential races, designing strategies for nominating contests, general elections, and Election Day operations.
Based in metro Detroit, Alper has advised Michigan leaders and campaigns for decades. She has served as a senior strategist for Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, and has overseen presidential campaigns in Michigan, independent expenditure committees, and statewide ballot initiatives. The American Association of Political Consultants named her National Campaign Manager of the Year for her work on Granholm’s campaign.
Her work includes serving as principal strategist and media consultant for Michigan’s 2022 Proposal 3 on reproductive freedom, 2018 Proposal 2 on redistricting, 2013 Detroit Institute of Arts millage, and 2008 Proposal 2 on stem cell research. She has also worked with nearly every Democratic woman elected governor since 2002.
Alper is a graduate of Boston College.