Samantha Kupferman

Samantha Kupferman leads business development and client relations at West End Strategy Team, as well as the firm’s internal and external training programs. A member of the firm’s leadership team, her work builds on her experience leading strategic communications initiatives on behalf of nonprofits and foundations, professional services organizations, public sector entities and individual thought leaders. She was one of WEST’s original team members, launched its New York office in 2015 and returned to the Washington office in 2019.

In addition to previous roles at communications firms including Marathon Strategies in New York and Rabinowitz/Dorf Communications in Washington, Samantha served as deputy communications director for Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, and as a reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Samantha holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in international politics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she received a certificate in Latin American Studies and during which time she studied in Chile and Spain.

Samantha is actively involved in volunteer community engagement. Since graduating from Georgetown, she has served as a volunteer alumni interviewer of undergraduate applicants. She serves as a member of her child’s elementary school PTA board of directors, leading advocacy efforts and representing the school community through a committee advocating on behalf of the nine schools in her Montgomery County Public Schools regional cluster. She was appointed to the Montgomery County Board of Education Advisory Committee on Communication and Community Engagement. She is a certified FTD Clinical Research Learning Institute research ambassador through the institute, which is a joint collaboration between The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration and the University of Pennsylvania Frontotemporal Degeneration Center at the UPenn Health System.

Previously, she supported nonprofits focused on advancing adult literacy, serving as president of the board and as an English as a second language tutor for Literacy Action of Central Arkansas, on the board of the Literacy Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and as a volunteer grant review panelist for the Montgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy. She was a grant reviewer for Jewish Federations of North America’s Center on Holocaust Survivor Care and Institute on Aging and Trauma.

She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and two children.