National Journal
Erin Heath

New York-based RLM Public Relations is teaming up with Washington’s Venture Communications to open a Washington-based public policy practice. Leading the shop will be Naomi Seligman, currently communications director for the Violence Policy Center, a gun-control group. “I’m still going to be working on choice and the environment and areas that I really care about-progressive causes,” she said. Seligman, 30, spent three and a half years with the policy center and before that a year as the director of outreach for the Democratic staff of the House Small Business Committee. She also served as a press secretary for Rep. Sam Farr, D-Calif., and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. Seligman got hooked on politics when she worked on a campaign for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. She had planned to earn a master’s degree in political communication, but, she recalled, “two weeks before going, I decided to come to D.C.” Before hitting the Hill, Seligman worked at Roll Call as a copy editor.