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| Gabriella Castillo |
Mercury’s Gabriella Castillo, who served the Joe Biden campaign in Florida as deputy state director, has joined the Commerce Dept. as PA director.
At the Omnicom unit, Castillo handled strategic communications, government relations, issues advocacy and digital strategies in English and Spanish for clients in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area.
Earlier, the Venezuelan native was communications director for Miami mayor Francis Suarez. She took that post after handling PR for his 2017 campaign manager.
Prior to entering the political scene, she was senior associate at LSN Partners doing PA and advocacy work for companies and nonprofits in the health services, transportation, technology and hospitality sectors; and associate attorney at Llorente & Heckler handling government procurement and compliance issues.
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.
