Tim Ryder
Tim joined U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s office in May 2019 and currently serves as a Legislative Assistant. Tim is spearheading the Leader’s work on artificial intelligence, while overseeing the disaster policy portfolio. He is also a member of the Schumer Climate Team, where he helped formulate, negotiate, and pass the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and a number of other bills last Congress.
Before joining Leader Schumer’s team, Tim worked briefly for Senator Bill Nelson of Florida on a similar portfolio of policy issues. Prior to his time on the Hill, he worked for The Climate Reality Project – former Vice President Al Gore’s non-profit – on Gore’s famous slideshow featured in An Inconvenient Truth. Tim is active in a number of young professional organizations, and runs a small business in the district – Green Drinks DC – with his longtime friend. Tim is a graduate of Stetson University, where he studied Environmental Science and Philosophy, and is an alumnus of American University’s Washington Semester Program. In what little spare time there is these days, Tim loves to garden, cook, and make music.