found: Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 14, 2020(in obituary dated Sept. 12, 2020: Ted Halstead, an author and social entrepreneur who helped create Washington-based policy institutes that groomed a generation of public intellectuals and sought to redefine the middle of American politics to solve some of the country's most pressing challenges, died Sept. 2 in Spain. He was 52. He was a resident of Boynton Beach, Fla. Mr. Halstead established himself quickly as a social presence in Washington starting in the late 1990s. He arrived after having started an environmental think tank in San Francisco at 25; co-founded the nonpartisan New America Foundation (now New America) in 1999 and later the Climate Leadership Council; stepped down as president [of New America] in 2007; chairman and chief executive of the Climate Leadership Council until his death. Edward Allen Halstead was born in Chicago on July 25, 1968)
