Brian Ellner, a former senior education aide in Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, has moved to Edelman as group head of the firm's New York public affairs operation.
Ellner takes an executive VP title under managing director Ron Guirguis in New York.
Ellner has recently been vice chairman of education holdings for MacAndrews and Forbes Technology Venture Group. He was a senior advisor on the Human Rights Campaign's 2011 push to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, taking the campaign national with HRC via its Americans for Marriage Equality push later that year.
An attorney, he was an education aide to Mayor Bloomberg and is a former president of the Manhattan school board.
Guirguis said hiring Ellner shows Edelman's commitment to investing in and growing its PA unit, while deepening its ties to New York.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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