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Tucker Eskew is the founder of Eskew Strategy Group, LLC -- a leader in developing and executing strategic communications for high-stakes policy battles.
From grassroots America to the global information climate, Tucker has served as both high-stakes strategist and high-visibility spokesman, developing messages and tactics to lead opinion during the most intense public debates of the new century.
Called a “close aide” and “global spokesperson" for President George W. Bush by US News & World Report, Tucker led communications campaigns during
• the Afghanistan and Iraq wars
• the Bush-Cheney transition
• the Florida recount, and
• the 2000 South Carolina Republican presidential primary.
He has 20 years experience in issue management and integrated communications, with leadership roles in public affairs, media relations, international strategic planning, crisis communications, business development and technology marketing.
As Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Global Communications until December 2003, Tucker headed the development of strategic communications to promote Administration policies and American values around the world. He coordinated wartime messages across all major cabinet agencies and with America’s allies. Working with the senior-most officials of the Administration, Tucker conducted strategic communications planning prior to the Iraq war and shaped a series of post-war messages regarding America’s successes and true intentions in the Middle East.
During the war in Afghanistan, Tucker served in London as President Bush’s representative to No. 10 Downing Street for communications strategy. He helped lead the Coalition Information Center, which coordinated efforts of the White House and the Blair government to proclaim the goals of the US-led war on terrorism.
Previously, as Director of the White House Office of Media Affairs in 2001, he oversaw the Administration’s widely-hailed strategy and tactics for "outside-the-Beltway" news organizations, talk radio, specialty media and the President’s official website. On September 11, 2001 and until leaving for London two months later, Tucker advised senior officials on message strategy for national security and homeland security.
Tucker directed communications for the South Carolina presidential primary campaign of then-Governor George W. Bush. In the summer and fall of 2000, Tucker worked from Austin as a Senior Communications Advisor to the Bush campaign.
Beginning at age 25, Tucker was Press Secretary and Communications Director to South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell. He served for eight years – through natural disaster, economic triumph, and a statewide rise to political dominance – as chief spokesman for a leader the Almanac of American Politics called an “exemplar of governing conservatism.”
He began his political career as Press Assistant – and later, Assistant Press Secretary – for President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election campaign.
As the founder of Eskew Strategy Group, Tucker has prior leadership experience in the private sector. He co-founded an electronic commerce business in the mid-90s and built his own public relations and business-consulting firm, Eskew Communications Group, Inc.
Tucker is a graduate of the University of the South (Sewanee) . He and his family live in Alexandria, Virginia.
Lisa Eskew is the co- founder of Eskew Strategy Group, LLC and a longtime expert in national and state-level communications.
Lisa managed press relations for the National Governors’ Association from 1992 through 1995, after which she managed accounts for one of the Southeast’s leading public relations and advertising firms. From 1996 through 1998, she conducted communications and grassroots outreach for the South Carolina Governor’s Office, focusing on business leadership and welfare reforms. Lisa then employed her communications skills in the state legislature, working for the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader. As a private consultant and partner in a previous communications firm over the past three years, Lisa performed editorial services and press outreach for trade associations and political campaigns.
Lisa is a graduate of Mt. Vernon College. She and her family live in Alexandria, Virginia.
Kara Kennedy has extensive experience as a Hill aide, senior consultant and strategic advisor to leading public officials. Prior to helping build the largest independently owned lobbying firm in the nation’s capital, Kara served as Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn’s (R-WA) Chief of Staff, managing the entire Dunn Congressional and political operation.
Previously, Kara was Dunn’s Communications Director, managing a series of high-level media opportunities, including an historic campaign for House Majority Leader in the wake of then-Speaker Gingrich stepping down; the first response to the President’s State of the Union address delivered by a woman in the U.S. House; and Dunn’s public role in helping Governor George W. Bush launch his presidential campaign from Texas.
Kara worked for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1995, working on issues of importance to states such as Medicaid, welfare reform, Medicare and the environment. She then served on the Speaker’s communications team for two years. In the early 1990’s, Kara was an environment and natural resources policy analyst for the National Governors’ Association (NGA).
Todd Irons joined Eskew Strategy Group in 2005 bringing with him more than a decade of strategic communications, political, and public policy experience.
Most recently, Todd has managed numerous public affairs campaigns at PR firms along Washington, DC’s K Street corridor on behalf of various clients, particularly those in the energy and health care industries. His accomplishments include helping direct a nationwide communications effort for the Health Benefits Coalition, an alliance of nearly 30 national business groups and health plans including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, that prevented the “Patients’ Bill of Rights” from being enacted into law.
Previously, Todd served as Legislative Assistant to former-U.S. Congressman Dan Miller (R-FL) where he advised Mr. Miller on issues ranging from the federal budget and tax policy to trade and agriculture. He also led the Congressman’s efforts to try and end the federal government’s long-entrenched price support program for sugar.
Todd began his political career at the Republican National Committee where he served in the RNC’s Opposition Research Department and later as Assistant for Policy Communications during the 1996 election cycle.
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