Emily Pierce, deputy director of public affairs at the US Department of Justice, has joined Washington-based policy communications firm Vrge Strategies as a senior VP.
Pierce focuses on legal, policy, anti-trust and homeland security issues for clients of the year-old firm that is part of Next Fifteen alongside PR firms like M Booth and Text 100.
At the Justice Dept., she served as acting director of PA and handled issues like the recent iPhone encryption dust-up and the Obama administration's push for criminal justice reform under Attorneys General Loretta Lynch and Eric holder.
She joined the administration from the No. 2 editor slot at Roll Call, where she earlier covered the Senate and White House.
She started her 17-year journalism career Congressional Quarterly.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
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.
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