Kathy Grannis Allen, senior director of media relations for the National Retail Foundation, has taken off for the Washington-based airline trade group Airlines for America as managing director for airline industry PR and communications.
Allen spent 10 years at the NRF as a top media liaison after starting out with Stovell Marketing and NAVAIR.
A4A, as the trade group is known, also added Nicole Soufi as manager of social media from government statistics contractor Westat, where she was a digital and social media associate.
A4A lobbies and advocates for a sector that claims 11M jobs and $1.5 trillion in economic activity in the US.
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