melanie sloanMelanie Sloan, founding executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has launched Triumph Strategy with Michael Huttner, founder of ProgressNow.

From offices in DC and Boulder, TS offers crisis management and narrative development for private/public companies, trade assns., labor unions and political candidates.

Sloan, who launched CREW in 2003, was assistant US attorney in DC and counsel for the House House Judiciary Committee. She is of counsel to CREW.

Most recently Huttner worked on the successful re-election campaign of Colorado's Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper.

His group of state-based communications organizations has more than 3.4M members in 23 states.