Biography
Michael O’Loughlin has decades of experience helping clients develop and implement integrated strategies for advocacy campaigns on issues related to environmental sustainability, public health, transportation, infrastructure, consumer rights and other issues of public interest. For most of that time, Michael directed the New York office of national public affairs firm M+R, before leaving to work on his own in 2016.
Michael is proud to have organized community and political support for passage of New York’s Smoke-Free Workplace Act and numerous landmark tobacco control policies since then.
Michael helped conceive and launch Waterfront Alliance, organizing the hundreds of diverse stakeholder groups around the NY-NJ waterfront to advocate successfully for the public-spirited renaissance that has transformed the region’s previously neglected waterfront.
He coordinated the mobilizing effort for “Listening to the City,” the historic meeting of 5,000 demographically-representative residents of the NY-NJ region that helped rewrite plans for rebuilding Lower Manhattan after 9/11.
Beginning in 2007, Michael coordinated the Campaign for New York’s Future, a broad coalition of 150+ groups in support of Mayor Mike Blooomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 initiatives for a greener, healthier New York City.
In recent years, Michael has helped clients organize groundbreaking campaigns around diverse issues ranging from advocating for the rights of restaurant workers to improving the safety, quality and environmental impact of NYC taxis and for-hire vehicles.
Prior to his career as a consultant, Michael managed a variety of organizing and advocacy projects with the New York Public Interest Research Group. (He previously failed in his intended career: commercial fishing in Alaska.)
Michael received his degree from Princeton University.
Currently, Michael lives in Gowanus, Brooklyn with his wife, two children and one very large dog.