Disney Appoints Kristina Schake, Veteran of Barack Obama’s Administration and Hillary Clinton’s Campaign, as Key Spokesperson

Christina Shekey, who led the Biden administration’s educational efforts to vaccinate against COVID-19 and previously served as First Lady Michelle Obama’s communications director and then starred in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, joins The Walt Disney Co.

Schake will report to Geoff Morel, the company’s director of corporate affairs.

President Joe Biden appointed Shawk to head the Covid vaccination campaign at the Department of Health and Human Services last year, where he served as an advisor to the Secretary for Strategic Communications. He left at the end of last year.

Previously, he worked as the Director of Global Communications at Instagram.

Previously, he was Deputy Director of Communications for Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. He was also Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Director of Communications to Michelle Obama.

In a statement, Morel said: “His experience in the public and private sectors, in political and corporate campaigns, is ideal for this important role and will help me integrate communication with government relations, public policy and corporate social responsibility. New Corporate Affairs Team. Together with distinguished Disney professionals, we will help the world’s largest fiction company engage even more effectively with many of our stakeholders around the world. “

Shaw will return to California, where he served as chief communications strategist for First Lady Maria Shriver, the California Foundation Women’s Conference and Healthy Communities Initiative.

Shake also founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which challenged the state’s ban on same-sex marriage and eventually overturned it in a 2013 Supreme Court ruling. He began his career working with the mayor by Los Angeles Richard Riordan.