Potomac Flacks: Phalen Named Communications Director for House Homeland Security Committee

April 01, 2015

Phalen Named Communications Director for House Homeland Security Committee

House Homeland Security Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) named Susan Phalen as the new Communications Director for the committee.

From 2011-2015, Phalen served as Communications Director for the House Intelligence Committee.

Before that she headed communications for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and spent eight years at the U.S. Department of State as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. During that time, she deployed to Iraq nine times.

Before that she was Communications Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the OECD in Paris. She also worked in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House early in her career.

She got her start in radio on the island of Guam.

She is a 1992 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (PF tipster)

Posted by Matt Mackowiak on April 1, 2015 in Capitol Hill , People | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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