Anna Soellner, who led communications for liberal think tank Center for American Progress, has moved to the Motion Picture Association of America as VP of corporate communications.
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Soellner will report to her former CAP colleague, Laura Nichols, executive VP for global communications at MPAA who joined the group in September.
Soellner developed the CAP’s “Reel Progress” screening series about the issues covered by motion pictures, in addition to leading communications for the think tank. She previously worked the Hill and Treasury Department.
New MPAA CEO Chris Dodd, the former U.S. senator from Connecticut, said in a statement that CAP had “one of the most innovative communications shop in DC,” adding that Soellner will help the group “explain just how movies matter from job creation to being America’s cultural touchstone.
Dodd also installed lobbyist Cybele Daley as senior VP of government affairs for the movie industry’s trade group.
Daley was at Van Scoyoc Associates, where she handled the MPAA, among other clients.
She worked in the Bush Justice Department as a principal deputy assistant attorney general and acting assistant AG.