Representative client engagements include:CNN Worldwide• Recruited by C-suite executive leadership to design strategic communications and public affairs plans for this global news media conglomerate.• Advanced the company’s innovative new revenue streams and initiatives, via the quantifiable potential of responsible AI initiatives and international partnerships.The Council of Europe• Recruited by the Directorate of this int’l organization’s Committee on AI to guide its introduction and effective engagement with the White House AI, science, and technology policy leadership.• Advanced the Council’s transatlantic policy mission to bring the U.S. (as an int’l Observer state) to join ongoing int’l negotiations that are on track to become the world’s first multilateral treaty and Convention on AI, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law.• Served as the Directorate’s sole Washington, DC strategic communications, public affairs, and government relations representative.H5• Served as strategic communications, policy, and government affairs advisor to the CEO of this pioneering Silicon Valley AI company, founded in 2000 and acquired (by Lighthouse) in 2021. • Collaborated with the CEO to design the company’s successful initiatives to shape the public conversation and emerging policy & regulatory landscape around AI and its complex role in the American and European systems of law and government.The Future Society (TFS)• Incubated at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, TFS is a non-profit think-and-do-tank and policy forum focused on the rise of AI and its quantifiable benefits, risks, and societal impacts.• Advised the founder and president on US and int’l public affairs strategies to advance TFS’ mission via inclusive consultations, evidence-based research, advocacy, and the development of responsible, ethical global AI governance frameworks.

Leading teams of White House Advance staff at numerous official and political events around the United States and throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including recent service as:* the First Lady’s White House Advance Lead for events in Washington, D.C. with French First Lady Brigitte Macron during the 2022 French State Visit;* the First Lady’s White House Advance Press Lead at presidential palace events with the president of Slovakia during Dr. Biden’s 2022 trip to Eastern Europe, which included her historic (unannounced and top secret) visit to Ukraine’s active war zone to meet with Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska;* the First Lady’s Advance Site Lead for meetings with French First Lady Brigitte Macron at the 2021 G20 Summit in Rome;* the First Lady’s White House Advance Lead for 2021 pandemic-era economic relief and federal health policy events in Alabama and as White House Press Advance Lead at health policy events in New Mexico.* Vice President Biden’s White House Site Lead at 2016 health policy events in Seattle; and as* Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden’s White House Press and Site Leads during 2016 official U.S. State Visits to theUnited Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Malawi.Working directly with reporters from the White House traveling press corps in the U.S. and overseas, ensuring they have the access and information necessary to accurately report on domestic and overseas events with the President and First Lady.Working directly with the President, First Lady, and former president and vice presidents, their senior White House staff, U.S. Embassy leadership overseas, the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Special Forces, members of the local, state, national, and international press, as well as with local, state, and national political and community leaders.

Advising the CEO of this this pioneering high-growth B2B artificial intelligence company on all aspects of domestic and international AI policy, strategic policy communications, and government relations, as they relate to the company’s groundbreaking use of AI to replicate and automate expert human relevance assessments within the American and international legal systems.• Directing the company’s policy coalition-building and public engagement strategies in the corporate, government, academic, think tank, non-profit, and international NGO realms.• Directing the company’s efforts to simultaneously shape the conversation and navigate the emerging policy landscape around AI and its use in the American and international systems of law and justice.

Directed all AI policy, strategic communications, and government affairs initiatives for pioneering AI company H5; identified and engaged key external organizations and thought leaders within the intersecting realms of law, policy, technology, and academia; developed and managed the company’s relationships with prominent policy advocacy groups, industry think tanks, government entities, and academic institutions; reported directly to the CEO. • Directed all policy coalition-building, advocacy, and public engagement with: o Government entities (e.g., White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission)o Think tanks (e.g., the Sedona Conference, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Law) o Academic institutions (e.g., Stanford University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University)o Advocacy groups (e.g., Lawyers for Civil Justice, various law firm public policy practice groups) o Judicial education organizations (e.g., Federal Judicial Center, California Judicial Council).• Spearheaded the company’s participation in the USG’s TREC Legal Track program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which was designed to study and benchmark Search technologies and methods. • Conceived and produced the H5-Georgetown Law 2007 national thought leadership Summit, “And Justice for All: How the Electronic Information Explosion is Transforming the American Legal System,” moderated by Harvard Law professor Arthur Miller and featuring United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; designed, negotiated, and managed the partnership with the Georgetown University Law Center; designed the event’s messaging, presentation, and execution.

Recruited by this high-growth B2C company - at the epicenter of complex, controversial emerging technology and harm reduction policy realms - to establish and grow a unique, interdisciplinary in-house team at the nexus of the Policy, Communications, and Scientific Affairs departments. • Designed policy communications, coalition-building, and public engagement strategies related to the scientific policy aspects of the company’s mission to find viable alternatives to help hasten the demise of the global scourge of tobacco addiction.• Served as on-the-record Policy Communications spokesperson for national, state, and local press stories.• Worked directly with scientists and technologists in the company’s Scientific Affairs department to translate its substantive scientific research into public policy messaging and communications.• Advanced the company’s public engagement and thought leadership efforts with a variety of third-party think tanks, academics, and harm reduction policy organizations

Appointed by President Barack Obama to serve in his administration and direct all Communications and Public Engagement initiatives of the U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the nation’s 13,000 person intellectual property agency; directed all crisis and executive communications, media relations, social media, speechwriting, and stakeholder engagement initiatives; managed all staff, $3 million budget, and operations of the 30 person Office of the Chief Communications Officer, building the rapid expansion of the office, tripling it in size, and adding significant new capabilities; reported directly to the Director of the USPTO, who serves as the principal advisor to the President of the United States on domestic and international intellectual property policy matters.

Representative client engagements included:• AscorpDesigned and implemented a policy communications and government relations and strategy for this international public-private partnership that was created to ensure Angola’s successful implementation of the United Nations’ Kimberley Process (to halt the flow of illegal conflict diamonds from Angola); served as U.S. spokesperson for the company, designing its domestic messaging and representing it at the U.S. State Department, U.S. Trade Representative, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.• National Stonewall DemocratsDirected political field operations during the 2002 campaign cycle in New Hampshire for this national LGBTQ+ organization; designed and managed statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy, constituency outreach, and voter mobilization programs.• Stillwater Mining CompanyProvided corporate policy communications counsel to this U.S. mining company, supporting its successful $350 million international merger involving high-tech and national security interests; created policy communications and coalition-building strategy for a broad spectrum of internal and external stakeholders, including Labor, local and national media, national and state government officials, Board of Directors, and shareholders.

Directed site preparation, event execution, motorcade, and/or press components for official and political events for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.

Designed structural framework, implementation, and management of the presidential campaign’s efforts to build support within the national corporate and high-tech communities, including the recruitment of a record-breaking 2,750 personal endorsements from CEOs and top business leaders in every state in the nation; managed the campaign’s “Tech Leaders for Gore” constituency group; and worked with senior campaign management and press operation to design the economic policy message and showcase the widespread business support generated by the program. Coordinated and implemented DNC Recount Committee legal and political recount activities in several Florida counties during the 2000 presidential election recount there, including legal representation of the Florida Democratic Party in contentious overseas ballot hearings before the Manatee County Canvassing Board.

Provided legal corporate counsel for this global law firm’s domestic and international clients concerning U.S. and multilateral trade law and policy; advised Asian, Latin American, African, and European clients on ethics compliance issues and legal aspects of U.S. political activities; counseled corporate clients on international e-commerce policy, antidumping and countervailing duties, international sanctions, investment, and antitrust issues.

Attorney-Advisor to the Chief Counsel for International Commerce; provided legal counsel to the International Trade Administration and senior Department officials, including the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and General Counsel, on international trade law and policy, including work on African and European aviation and transparency negotiations; directed the U.S. Government’s first joint U.S. - West African Legal Conference, held at the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, as part of Presidential Trade Mission (developed the substantive legal agenda, researched and selected Conference speakers, managed the on-site preparation and execution of the conference, and drafted the U.S. Commerce Secretary's keynote speech).