Meet the Team
Samuel Dunietz
Principal, Federal Policy
Samuel Dunietz founded the Dendron Group in 2017 to use his experience to equip organizations and institutions with the tools they need to achieve their goals, with an emphasis on communicating complex policy into actionable language.
His research and policy interests are especially focused on the role of secondary-postsecondary partnerships, postsecondary CTE programs and best practices for effectively using federal and state data sources for policy implementation. Prior to that, he directed government relations programs and helped to run the largest survey of faculty compensation in the country.
He is an alumnus of the University of Maryland, College Park.
Ryan Simon
Legislative Liason Director
Ryan is a San Francisco native with over a decade in politics. He has more than five years of direct federal lobbying and grassroots advocacy experience with defense and foreign policy organizations, and has organized numerous grassroots Capitol Hill day fly-ins. He is experienced in appropriations strategy for several cycles, and has also worked on civil rights and small business issues. He has worked for Members of Congress on both sides of the Hill (House and Senate) - in-district and on Capitol Hill. Ryan is a graduate of San Francisco State and lives in Arlington.