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| Karine Jean-Pierre |
Karine Jean-Pierre will succeed Jen Psaki as White House press secretary on May 13 to become the first Black and openly gay person to hold that position.
President Joe Biden also announced that Anita Dunn, partner and founding member of SKDK, is rejoining his team to plot strategy and guide messaging leading up to the midterm elections.
Jean-Pierre, who is principal deputy press secretary, is a long-term Biden advisor. She had communications and political roles during the campaign and while he was vice president.
Before joining Biden’s presidential campaign, she was chief public affairs officer for MoveOn.org and a NBC/MSNBC analyst.
Dunn was senior advisor to Biden and Kamala Harris during the presidential campaign, then joined Team Biden to work on the transition. She worked closely with Psaki and communications director Kate Bedingfield.
Dunn, who also counseled Democrats Barack Obama, Tom Daschle, Bill Bradley and Evan Bayh, returned to SKDK earlier this year.
Steve Rice, who served as director of political mobilization for Boeing, joins DC-based bipartisan public affairs and strategic communications firm The Herald Group as SVP, overseeing its grasstops and 50-state field operations. 
Qorvis has named Victor Shiblie senior advisor to boost its international network and global business opportunities.
Pierre DuBois has taken the VP-public affairs post at AIB Data Centers, developer of the digital infrastructure for AI hosting and high-performance computing workloads.
Allison Worldwide names Victoria Brophy EVP, head of corporate and technology in Europe. Brophy comes to the firm from Golin Ketchum London, where as EVP she built and led the London Corporate Affairs practice... 
Signal Group, a DC-based public affairs firm, hires Josie Feron as director. Feron was most recently communications director for the Office of Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-NC)... Moburst, a mobile-first digital agency driven by a proprietary AI program, appoints Etgar Shpivak as VP of marketing... Howard University hires Jasmine Gurley as senior director of public relations in the Office of University Communications.
