SKDK VP Audrey Gelman Named Spokesperson for Rock The Vote
Rock The Vote kicked off efforts to organize the largest youth voter registration and mobilization effort in the country for the 2014 Midterms, and announced a roster of new team members, including SKDKnickerbocker’s Audrey Gelman as National Spokesperson. Rock the Vote’s 2014 goals include registering 1.5 million people; that goal includes over 400,000 young people and […]
SKDK Client BoldlyGo Institute Announces Plans to Advance Space Science and Exploration
With limited federal funding, BoldlyGo Institute is joining a growing group of private sector investors in space science and exploration. New York City-based BoldlyGo Institute recently announced how it intends to build and launch its own scientifically-focused space missions. Among the missions that BoldlyGo already plans to launch are a robotic there-and-back trip to Mars and a new space telescope mission […]
Citizens Against Selina Launches Major National Blitz
The Citizens Against Selina Political Action Committee today launched the first major advertising campaign of the cycle designed to bring attention to the perils of a possible Selina Meyer presidency. The ads raise very real concerns over Ms. Meyer lack of judgment and insight that are necessary to lead the free world. The ads ask […]
SKDK Vice President Audrey Gelman named Contributing Editor at Marie Claire Magazine
SKDKnickerbocker Vice President Audrey Gelman was named a Contributing Editor at Marie Claire Magazine. Gelman will serve as a consultant to the magazine, providing insight on issues and leaders for the magazine to spotlight. Last November, Gelman was one of 50 women to be named to Marie Claire’s “New Guard” of professional women. Read more about it in […]
Jill Zuckman and SKDK’s work to #BringAlanHome featured in National Journal
This National Journal feature on SKDKnickerbocker’s Jill Zuckman describes the work that Jill has led at the agency to help raise awareness about Alan Gross. Gross is a former subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development who was arrested by the Cuban government four years ago on charges that he had committed “acts against the independence or […]
Josh Isay and Jennifer Cunningham on The New York Observer’s Political Power 80 List
Josh Isay and Jennifer Cunningham were both listed on the New York Observer’s Political Power list this week as two of the City’s top crop of of consultants. Read more here.
PR COUTURE: Fashion Tech Q&A with Lindsey Green, VP at SKDKnickerbocker
In the summer of 2013, Lindsey merged Ti14th with SKDK. As Vice President, Lindsey has spent the last year building a tech and startup division for the traditionally political PR firm, where she continues to work with Of a Kind and other innovative companies pushing fashion tech and digital storytelling forward. One of the brightest minds […]
POLITICO: SKDKnickerbocker to run “Marriage Equality War Room” with Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign is setting up a coordinated “war room” effort to help disseminate information about the efforts in dozens of states to legalize same-sex nuptials. The effort will support Americans for Marriage Equality — a group that will aim to build on the efforts of the gay rights community following the United States Supreme […]
Capital New York: SKDKnickerbocker Repping Sherman’s Ailes Book
via Capital New York: Gabriel Sherman’s forthcoming book on Fox News honcho Roger Ailes, The Loudest Voice in the Room, has already been causing such a stir that it needs some high-profile P.R. people of its own to help manage the blowback. The book’s publisher, Random House, has retained strategy power-firm SKDKnickerbocker to assist with the press […]
City and State’s 2013 Albany Rising Stars: Jessica Bassett
Jessica Bassett was the last person standing in Gov. David Paterson’s press shop. Elevated to acting director of communications in the fall of 2010, she survived to his final day in office, grappling with contentious issues until the end. “Someone had to take press calls on the last day of government,” Bassett explained. Bassett’s rise […]