The White House communications director or White House director of communications,also known officially as Assistant to the President for Communications,is part of the senior staff of the president of the United States. The officeholder is responsible for developing and promoting the agenda of the president and leading its media campaign.
David Plouffe is an American political and business strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's successful 2008 presidential campaign. He was the senior advisor to Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign. A long-time Democratic Party campaign consultant,he was a partner at the party-aligned campaign consulting firm AKPD Message and Media,which he joined in 2000.
Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office.
Jay Carney is an American public relations officer,political advisor,and journalist who served as the United States' White House Press Secretary from 2011 to 2014,and Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022. Since 2022,he has been Global Head of Policy and Communications at Airbnb.
Stephanie Cutter is an American political consultant. She served as an advisor to President Barack Obama during his first presidential term,and was deputy campaign manager for his 2012 re-election campaign. She previously worked in campaign and communications roles for other prominent Democrats including Ted Kennedy,John Kerry,and Michelle Obama. The New York Times described her as "a popular but polarizing face of [Obama's] campaign",and a "soldier who says the things the candidate can't say."
Anita Dunn is an American political strategist who served as a senior advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden,holding the post from January 20,2021,to August 12,2021,and again from May 5,2022 to August 2024. She is currently serving as a senior adviser to the Future Forward PAC.
Howard Daniel Pfeiffer is an American political advisor,author,and podcast host. He was senior advisor to President Barack Obama for strategy and communications from 2013 to 2015.
Steven J. Ricchetti is an American political aide serving as a Counselor to the President under President Joe Biden. He was the chairman of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Ricchetti previously served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden during the Obama administration and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations under President Bill Clinton. In between stints in Democratic administrations,Ricchetti has worked as a lobbyist.
The White House Office of the Press Secretary,or the Press Office,is responsible for gathering and disseminating information to three principal groups:the President,the White House staff,and the media. The Office is headed by the White House Press Secretary,and is part of the White House Office,which is a subunit of the Executive Office of the President.
Robert F. Bauer is an American attorney who served as White House Counsel under President Barack Obama.
Jennifer Rene Psaki is an American television political analyst and former government official. A political advisor who served under both the Obama and Biden administrations,she served the Biden administration as the 34th White House press secretary until May 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served in the Obama administration as the White House deputy press secretary (2009);the White House deputy communications director (2009–2011);the spokesperson for the United States Department of State (2013–2015);and the White House communications director (2015–2017). Psaki was a political contributor for CNN from 2017 to 2020. As of March 2023,she hosts the talk-show Inside with Jen Psaki on MSNBC.
Senior Advisor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States. White House senior advisors are senior members of the White House Office. The title has been formally used since 1993.
Jennifer M. Palmieri is an American political advisor and media personality who served as White House Director of Communications from 2013 to 2015 and Director of Communications for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign. Palmieri was the co-host of the political documentary series The Circus on Showtime from 2021 to 2023.
Hope Charlotte Hicks is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump’s administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021. She served as White House director of strategic communications from January to September 2017,as White House communications director from 2017 to 2018,and returned to serve as a counselor to the president from 2020 to 2021.
Brian Edward Fallon Jr. is an American former political operative. He was the national press secretary for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign,a role he began in March 2015,and was a senior advisor in Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. In 2018,he founded the legal advocacy organization Demand Justice.
Herbie Ziskend is an American political advisor and the White House Principal Deputy Communications Director in the Biden administration. He previously served as a senior communications advisor for Vice President Kamala Harris from 2021 to 2022,and as a policy and communications advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.
Karine Jean-Pierre is a French-American political advisor who has been serving as the White House press secretary since May 13,2022,and a senior advisor to President Joe Biden since October 7,2024. She is the first black person and the first openly LGBTQ person to serve in the position of White House press secretary. Previously,she served as the deputy press secretary to her predecessor Jen Psaki from 2021 to 2022 and as the chief of staff for U.S. Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Stephanie Ann Grisham is an American former White House official who was the 32nd White House press secretary and served as White House communications director from July 2019 to April 2020. She was chief of staff and press secretary for the first lady of the United States,Melania Trump from 2020 to 2021,after previously serving as her press secretary from 2017 to 2019.
The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (IGA) is a unit of the White House Office,within the Executive Office of the President. It serves as the primary liaison between the White House and state,county (or county-equivalent),local,and tribal governments. The office focuses on building new and maintaining current relationships with governors,tribal leaders,mayors,state legislators,and county executives. The Office of Intergovernmental Affairs works with federal agencies and departments to ensure appropriate coordination between state,local,and tribal governments and the federal government. The Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at the White House Office for the Biden administration was Julie Chavez Rodriguez until she resigned on May 16,2023 to become Biden's Campaign Manager for his 2024 reelection bid. Tom Perez became Director on June 12,2023.
Alyssa Farah Griffin is an American political strategist and television personality. She was the White House director of strategic communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump. In addition to appearing on CNN as a commentator,she is a co-host of the talk show The View,for which she received a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award.
