Brad Wassink

Bradley Wassink is an American public official who served as from April 16, 2017, until January 7, 2019. Wassink previously served as the Director of Reform Initiatives at the Wisconsin Department of Administration.
Biography
Prior to his appointment by Governor Scott Walker to help lead the Department of Children and Families, Wassink was the program manager of the Human Flourishing Project at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) think tank. During his time at AEI, Wassink wrote critiques of the Supplemental Security Income and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Wassink has also served as an appointed member of the Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board and Read to Lead Development Council.
While Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Children and Families, Wassink authored policy regarding facilitating public adoptions, adoption assistance, and pre-adoption training. Wassink served as a primary liaison to the Wisconsin Legislature, Governor's Task Force on Minority Unemployment, Joint Committee on Public Benefit Reform, Assembly Committee on Children and Families, and Assembly Committee on State Affairs. Wassink also helped to establish the agency's Rural Poverty initiative.
Wassink is the author of "A Conservative Social Justice Agenda" and has been a guest writer for the National Review and The Heritage Foundation. He holds bachelor's degree in political science and English from Calvin College. While in college, Wassink had internships for Michigan State Senator Jim Marleau, the Calvin College Center for Social Research, and the City of Grand Haven, Michigan.

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