Ali Bouffard is an Associate on SKDK’s Executive Communications team, where she uses her love of language to help clients tell their stories in ways that land. She began her career at SKDK as an intern, working with clients across politics, philanthropy, higher education, and business on speeches, op-eds, narratives, media training, and strategic communications.
Before SKDK, Ali interned as a speechwriter at the French Consulate in New York, drafting remarks and correspondence for the Consul General and supporting high-level diplomatic events. She also served as a spokesperson for Democrats Abroad France, working to ensure overseas voters had their voices heard during the 2024 election.
Ali earned her bachelor’s degree from Sciences Po, where she discovered her love of speechwriting. She helped lead the university’s anglophone eloquence team and won multiple speechwriting awards, taking first place at the U.S. Embassy Paris’ Marshall Competition and the Prix Richard Descoings.
Ali is French-American, raised across Japan, Paris, and California, and now calls Washington, D.C., home. She speaks fluent French, intermediate Mandarin, and German that’s best described as “in progress.”
