She directed a national campaign to engage college students in the discussion on the future of Social Security for the Pew Charitable Trusts,[citation needed] and served as Director of Public Relations of Teach For America before working as the education advisor to Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer.
[citation needed] From 2002 to 2009, Schlesinger led the Drum Major Institute, a think tank founded in 1961 during the American Civil Rights Movement by Harry H.
[citation needed] During her tenure as executive director, DMI released several policy papers to national audiences.
[2][3] including: Congress at the Midterm: Their Middle-Class Record [4] and Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class.
[5] In February 2009, she took leave from that position to work as a policy adviser to the re-election campaign of Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg.