Mia Freis Quinn, a VP for Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Washington, has moved to SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association as VP of communications.SPI is the 78-year-old trade group for the $427 billion plastics industry supply chain, including processors, machinery, equipment makers and raw material suppliers.
Quinn takes the PR reins from Tracy Cullen, senior VP of comms. and marketing who stepped down in January after 10 years.
Quinn was a director for Public Strategies Inc., joining H+K with its merger with PSI in 2011. She played a key role working the campaign around Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC's $15.1B buy of Canada's Nexen in 2013.
Quinn started out in the agency realm with Ketchum and served as deputy press secretary to Tom Strickland's unsuccessful 2002 Senate bid in Colorado.
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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