Heather Wilson
Heather Wilson

SKDKnickerbocker has recruited Heather Wilson as managing director in its Los Angeles office. She’ll handle corporate/financial communications, crisis, litigation, PA and media strategy.

The former reporter for CBS MarketWatch had been serving as volunteer communications/media advisor for Project Include, the Silicon Valley-based non-profit the works to improve diversity at start-ups and inclusion at venture capital firms and start-ups.

She took that post following a nine-month run at MWWPR, where she was managing director, national strategic communications and crisis management on the west coast.

Wilson also headed Abernathy MacGregor’s San Franciso office and held the executive VP-corporate affairs post at Weber Shandwick during her eight-year stint.