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| Cathy Cochran |
Cathy Cochran, senior VP in Teneo’s Washington office, has rejoined the US Dept of Agriculture as director in its communications office.
She joined the global CEO advisory from Glover Park Group (now FGS Global), where she led its food and agriculture practice.
Prior to GPG, Cochran did a nearly 10-year stint at the USDA and served as press secretary for Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack during the Obama administration.
She also led communications for USDA’s food safety and inspection service.
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.
