Hope Hicks is moving into the White House communications director hot seat, replacing ousted Wall Street player Anthony Scaramucci, who sat in that for 10 days.
She’s a member of the Trump family inner circle, serving as spokesperson for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Trump Organization.
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Hope HicksThe 28-year-old former actor and model has PR firm experience, earned at Hiltzick Strategies in New York while working with First Daughter Ivanka Trump on her fashion line.
The New York Times reports that Hicks is to serve on an interim basis and help Trump search for a permanent communications.
New White House chief of staff John Kelly fired Scaramucci last month in the wake of fallout from his disastrous phone interview with The New Yorker.
Former press secretary Sean Spicer assumed communications director duties after GOP strategist Mike Dubke was canned in May.
Jeffrey Nesbit, who served as communications director for former vice president Dan Quayle, is named assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, will exit at the end of the month. Ben LaBolt, a longtime Biden adviser, will take the CD post.
Cathy Cochran, senior VP in Teneo’s Washington office, has rejoined the US Dept of Agriculture as director in its communications office.
Mexico is working with the DC-based Global Action on Gun Violence to push for “impactful gun violence prevention strategies” in the US.
Douglas Farrar, who was VP-communications and strategy at the Carnegie Center for International Peace, has joined the Federal Trade Commission as PA director.
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