Emily Pierce, deputy director of public affairs at the US Department of Justice, has joined Washington-based policy communications firm Vrge Strategies as a senior VP.
Pierce focuses on legal, policy, anti-trust and homeland security issues for clients of the year-old firm that is part of Next Fifteen alongside PR firms like M Booth and Text 100.
At the Justice Dept., she served as acting director of PA and handled issues like the recent iPhone encryption dust-up and the Obama administration's push for criminal justice reform under Attorneys General Loretta Lynch and Eric holder.
She joined the administration from the No. 2 editor slot at Roll Call, where she earlier covered the Senate and White House.
She started her 17-year journalism career Congressional Quarterly.
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