Geraldine Ferraro, a former Democratic Vice Presidential candidate who spent the last four years at Golin/Harris Int'l, has moved to The Global Consulting Group in New York as a VP. She is charged with building up the firm's fledgling public affairs unit.

Geraldine Ferraro

Ferraro told this website a key factor in the move was her "past life" work with Richard Wolff, CEO of Huntsworth-owned GCG who used to head G/HI's New York office, where she was based. Wolff opened GCG three years ago.

Ferraro said her contract with G/HI expired in May and the parting was "amicable." She said she continues as a consultant. At G/HI, she did PA work for Mercy Housing, a not-for-profit affordable housing builder, and the Alliance for Energy and Economic Growth, an industry group advocating Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a site for nuclear waste storage.

The former three-term Congresswoman, who will be based in New York but travels to Washington, D.C., brings over public affairs work for Mercy Housing and Nestle.

She called the initial response to her work over the last two weeks "quite interesting and quite gratifying."