Scott Ferson

Scott Melbourne Ferson is a public relations executive and a Democratic Party strategist from Massachusetts. He has served as press secretary for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, communications director for Congressman Stephen Lynch, and senior advisor during Congressman Seth Moulton's 2014 campaign. His firm, the Liberty Square Group, is a strategic communications firm representing corporate, nonprofit, and through its political division, the Blue Lab, political clients.

In 2014, he was senior adviser and general consultant for Seth Moulton in his upset win for Massachusetts's 6th congressional district, cited by Roll Call as one of the 10 best run congressional campaigns of 2014.

In 2013, Ferson started working as an adjunct professor at Stonehill College. There he co-teaches a set of three courses on politics and political communication with Peter Ubertaccio. One course includes a simulated election combining classwork and real-time crisis management. The courses culminate in a weeklong trip to Washington D.C. to engage with industry professionals, politicians, and journalists on the topics presented in the course. In 2017 Ferson began teaching at Suffolk University. He teaches in the government department.

In 2011, Ferson and Sean Sinclair, a former campaign manager for Senator Harry Reid, founded The Blue Lab, an incubator for Democratic campaigns and a comprehensive campaign resource for candidates. Based on the startup model, the consultants and interns seek to cut costs for clients through shared space and lateral input.

In 1999, as national firms acquired smaller companies, Ferson started his own business, the Liberty Square Group. As president, Ferson represents New England nonprofit and corporate interests and directs regional political campaigns. Today, the Liberty Square Group is a full service public affairs firm with a dozen associates, handling government affairs, public relations, press issues, and government marketing on local, state, and federal levels.

In 1987 he left Atkins' office for Congressman Richard Gephardt's campaign for president. Ferson was initially a field operative in southwestern Iowa and transitioned to state coordinator in Georgia and Connecticut. He then joined Senator Edward M. Kennedy's staff, working in his Boston office as his press secretary and his Massachusetts issues director from 1990 to 1995, including Kennedy's 1994 re-election campaign against Mitt Romney.

Ferson was born in Medford, Massachusetts and raised in Burlington. He attended Southeastern Massachusetts University (now the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) where he earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science. While he was a student, Ferson was introduced to political organizing on the John B. Anderson presidential campaign in 1980 as the Burlington, Massachusetts coordinator. After graduating, he worked for the newly elected Congressman Chester G. Atkins of the 5th district in Massachusetts, focusing on economic development issues in Lawrence and Lowell.