02-04-2025
Dan Koh launches "The People's Cabinet" to bolster Dems new media
Daniel Arrigg Koh, a former senior aide in the Biden White House, is launching a new media venture — starting with a podcast, "The People's Cabinet" — to help alleviate Democrats' shortfall in new media.
Why it matters: Koh says the podcast is inspired by the "shadow cabinet" in the U.K. and other countries, to provide "an inspiring, alternative vision for our country's future, while giving listeners the tools to persuade the people Democrats need to win again."
"The People's Cabinet" is the first venture of Koh's new company, Reverate Media, which is aimed at closing the Democratic disadvantage across new media ecosystems.
The podcast will feature Democratic thinkers, officials and rising leaders who can articulate substantive policy alternatives to the Trump administration.
What they're saying: "It's not just anti-Trump and anti-MAGA," Koh told Axios.
In a YouTube trailer, Koh says: "I'm here to ask the tough questions to understand how government works, and how we can make it better. ... Because the world doesn't change when we don't show up."
The backstory: Koh, 40, was the White House's deputy Cabinet secretary and an official in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Earlier, he was chief of staff at the Labor Department and chief of staff under Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
He also worked with Arianna Huffington as a media executive at Huffington Post during its peak traffic years, and was a venture-backed technology executive.
Koh has an undergraduate degree and MBA from Harvard. He's a native of Andover, Massachusetts, and lives in D.C. He's a frequent CNN guest.
