Kriston McIntosh

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Kriston Alford McIntosh serves as a managing director at Hamilton Place Strategies (HPS), where she counsels nonprofit and coalition leaders on building effective public affairs campaigns and corporate clients on the advancement of their DEI and stakeholder engagement strategies. Immediately prior to joining HPS, she served as the managing director of The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.

Kriston previously served as a senior vice president at Edelman Public Relations, where she managed its Edelman Alliances practice. She also served as the staff director of the U.S. Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee and as a senior policy advisor to Congressman John Lewis. Earlier in her career, she held positions at the United Nations Foundation and in the Office of Congressman John Conyers.

Kriston served as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University’s Master of Professional Studies in Public Relations and Corporate Communications program. Her commentary has been published in outlets including CNN Business, BBC News, The Hill, and The Detroit Free Press. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.

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