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| Anita Dunn |
Anita Dunn, a founding member of SKDKnickerbocker who returned to the firm after serving as a senior advisor to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris during the campaign, is rejoining Team Biden to work on the transition.
She is taking a leave of absence from the New York firm, which is part of Stagwell Group and plans to return to it during the summer.
At the White House, Dunn will work closely with press secretary Jen Psaki and communications director Kate Bedingfield.
During the campaign, Dunn advised Biden/Harris on messaging, debate preparation and communications strategy.
She was a chief strategist in Barack Obama’s White House.
Erik Hotmire has rejoined the Securities and Exchange Commission as chief external affairs officer and director of the Office of Public Affairs.
California seeks a firm to handle a $3.5M marketing/ad program to promote awareness of, and increase sign-ups in, its job corps program. 
The National Highway Safety Administration has awarded its public education to Stratacomm following a competitive re-compete process.
Congress wants the FTC to probe whether TikTok violated child privacy laws when it launched a last-ditch lobbying blitz to defeat the bill requiring its owner, ByteDance, to divest it.
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.
