Lauren Levinson, a corporate and PA group manager for Ketchum, has moved to drug company lobbying giant the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America as VP of communications.
Levinson spent nearly eight years at Ketchum in Washington, rising to VP and group manager before a stint on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.
For D.C.-based PhRMA, she leads communications strategy and public positioning, and will manage staffers focused on executive visibility, rapid response and proactive PR under senior VP Robert Zirkelbach.
She was previously a director of Prism Public Affairs and account supervisor for Powell Tate.
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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