Margaret Shepard, executive director for communications and strategy at the US Chamber of Commerce, has moved to DC-based tech incubator 1776 as a managing director.
Shepard will be the "quintessential liaison" between the VC firm's investors and startups, according to co-CEO and co-founder Donna Harris.
She spent the past eight years at the US Chmaber, including oversight of its American Jobs and Growth Agenda campaign and FreeEnterprise.com content marketing site.
1776 added former CNN correspondent Erin McPike as communications director in March. The incubator was set up in 2013 by tech entrepreneurs Harris and Evan Burfield. It announced a $7.2M capital raise in April by a group of investors that included AOL founder Steve Case.
Shepard previously worked on the agency side at Golin and Chlopak Leonard Schechter and Associates.
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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