Strategic Communications — Alexandra LaManna

Alexandra LaManna is a senior communications and public affairs expert with experience at the highest levels of politics, government, and the private sector. She is a media strategist above all — the one who reads the landscape, spots the opening, and knows how to capitalize on it.

Alexandra served as White House Spokesperson and Assistant Press Secretary focusing on reproductive rights in the Biden Administration. Her portfolio in the White House also included the economy, economic policy, and technology and crypto regulations.

Alexandra also was the senior Spokesperson for Secretary Janet L. Yellen and the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Day One political appointee in the Biden Administration. In addition to driving communications strategy for U.S. fiscal policy, Alexandra was charged with defining Secretary Yellen's legacy as the first person in U.S. history to hold all three major economic leadership roles: Treasury Secretary, Chair of the Federal Reserve, and Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Alexandra was also part of the Biden-Harris Transition, working to secure Senate confirmation of Cabinet nominees.

Having worked inside the White House Press Office, Alexandra approaches every media situation with an insider's understanding of how the press actually operates — what makes a story worth pursuing, what a producer is weighing, where to lean in, and when the strongest move is to say nothing at all. She's gone toe-to-toe with reporters on difficult stories, giving her the judgment to know what can still be changed, what needs to be contained, and how to prepare leaders when a story they never wanted is going to run anyway.

Clients rely on her to turn that judgment into media strategy built for the realities of the newsroom. She identifies the reporters and outlets that matter, knows when and how to bring them into a story, and prepares leaders for the questions they're actually going to face. And she invests in the relationships that make all of that more effective – building trust with reporters long before there's an announcement to land or a difficult story to manage.

Prior to the Biden Administration, Alexandra led corporate communications for Lyft, managing a team of more than 10 communications professionals and overseeing executive, financial, and crisis comms. One of her biggest areas of impact while at Lyft was leading Lyft's IPO in 2019.

She is frequently sought out by leading media outlets for her expertise, including the New York Times, NPR Morning Edition, Politico, Bloomberg, Time, Forbes, Fox News, and The Hill.

Alexandra lives in New York City and is a graduate of Northwestern University.