Max Losner RISING STARS
By Jesse Scheckner
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or Becker & Poliakoff government relations specialist Max Losner, politics isn’t just a passion; it’s part of his DNA. A fifth-generation Floridian, Losner grew up in Homestead, Miami-Dade County’s second-oldest city. It’s where his great-great grandfather, his namesake, and grandfather’s great uncle served as City Councilmen. Today, it’s where his father is seeking a third mayoral term. But his original aim wasn’t politics. Losner attended a medical magnet high school and spent years volunteering at Homestead Hospital. Health care fascinated him, and he decided to seek a degree in health service administration, albeit with a minor in political science, at the University of Central Florida. While there, he got word of the school’s legislative internship program. He applied, and before he knew it, he was in Tallahassee working for Rep. Daing bills and so on,” he said. vid Smith and former Rep. Scott Plakon. He stuck with them after, travel“I got firsthand experience in state ing back to Miami-Dade to work from government and realized I wanted my the firm’s Coral Gables office. When career to be in the world of governAlamo departed in mid-2021, Losner ment,” he said. succeeded him. Losner finished the internship and reSince then, he’s helped to attract bilturned to school in March 2020, with an lions of dollars in funding to local govearnest zest for politics. He landed Camernments and nonprofits the firm reppaign Manager jobs for two Republicans resents while successfully advocating running for office in Monroe County, for policies benefitting top-tier clients, Cheryl Meads and Rhonda Rebman Loincluding Miami-Dade, Miami, CVS, pez, the latter of whom narrowly lost to Aetna, Motorola, Siemens Corp. and a now-Rep. Jim Mooney. passel of engineering firms. From there, his stock skyrocketed. Last year, former Miami-Dade ComIn December 2020, the same month he mission Chair Jose “Pepe” Diaz appointgraduated from college, Losner won a ed Losner to the county’s Planning Adrace for Florida GOP Secretary. He then reached out to Becker lobbyists Alex Alamo and José Feuntes, whom he’d met while working at the Capitol, to see if they wanted an extra hand during Session. They did. “I was their boots on the ground during the ‘COVID Session,’ in the office acting as an administrator, helping service clients, attending meetings, track-
visory Board, a panel that counsels the County Commission on annexation and incorporations. The board elected him Chair this past December. Asked where he sees his career going from here, Losner said he feels like doing his current job forever, but he admitted to aspirations akin to those of his paternal forebears. “I love my work now, but I certainly want to find time to go to law school and expand the scope of what I can do in the practice,” he said. “I want to keep climbing the ladder here, working on impactful legislation. And who knows? Maybe I’ll follow in my father’s footsteps and run for local office.”
“I want to keep climbing the ladder here, working on impactful legislation.”
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