By Greg Hazley
LuAnn Canipe, a former journalist and Hill aide, has moved to the Transportation Security Administration to head public affairs.
Canipe is assistant administrator for strategic communications and PA for the federal agency , which has worked to mitigate image damage from years of drawing the ire of travelers for its airport screenings.
Canipe was communications director for Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) and press secretary to Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.). Earlier, she worked in broadcast journalism in Baltimore and D.C.
Kristin Lee, who held the TSA post, left for a senior PR post in Microsoft’s D.C. office in April. |