Former advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris joins Heather Podesta's lobbying and PR agency

Shari Yost Gold, a former advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris, is becoming a member of the lobbying and communications agency led by veteran lobbyist Heather Podesta.

Yost Gold will likely be working as a senior advisor in communications and public affairs at Podesta’s agency Invariant, the 2 stated in a joint interview. Yost Gold will likely be guiding company leaders on how to answer key coverage choices popping out of Washington D.C.

The transfer to herald Yost Gold, who has expertise working with politicians and enterprise leaders, comes as companies have come underneath strain to answer a wide range of controversial coverage choices, together with new voting legal guidelines, gun security measures and the pending Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade.

“These are not one off issues and one of the things we are doing with our clients is helping them develop processes to authentically address these issues,” stated Podesta, Invariant’s CEO. Podesta famous that Invariant’s strategic communications providing is comparatively new as they’re of their third 12 months of existence. Podesta is the ex-wife of former Democratic strategist Tony Podesta.

Yost Gold labored with Harris by lots of her campaigns, together with her latest 2020 run for president when she dropped out of the race and later grew to become President Joe Biden’s working mate. She additionally was a strategist for billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 marketing campaign for president. She beforehand was a senior advisor at MikeWorldWide, a public relations agency run by longtime Democratic fundraiser Mike Kempner.

Podesta wouldn’t say which purchasers of Invariant’s will likely be a part of Yost Gold’s portfolio. Data from OpenSecrets exhibits Invariant has grown to rank sixth this 12 months amongst all of the 20 prime U.S. lobbying retailers. Invariant to this point this 12 months has introduced in over $9 million in income, with present purchasers together with the Business Roundtable, SpaceX, DraftKings, American Express and Apple.