![]() ![]() Kaplan worked at the Walt Disney Studios for 12 years, as vice president of production for live-action feature films and as a writer-producer under exclusive contract. ![]() He also worked with Boyer on education policy while a program officer at the Aspen Institute, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a senior advisor at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As deputy campaign manager of Mondale's presidential campaign, he directed the campaign's speechwriting and research operations. Mondale, and also as executive assistant to the U.S. Kaplan served in the administration of President Jimmy Carter as chief speechwriter to Vice President Walter F. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. As a Danforth Foundation Fellow, he received a Ph.D. The recipient of a Marshall Scholarship from the British government, he received a master's degree in English with First Class Honours from Cambridge University in England. Kaplan was also elected to the editorial boards of the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Advocate and was the first Harvard undergraduate to serve on all three of its oldest publications. ![]() He was president of the Harvard Lampoon and of the Signet Society at both, his tenure included a change in by-laws leading to the first admission of women members after 95 years (the Lampoon) and 100 years (the Signet). Kaplan graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in molecular biology and won the Le Baron Russell Briggs prize for delivering the English Oration at commencement. ![]()
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