PERSON: Kirsten Kukowski

K2 & Co.

President

Kirsten is a communications professional who is an outside the box thinker and good on her feet. She has made numerous local and national television appearances and has found her way out of more than a few crisis situations over the years.

Her past experience includes stints in the House of Representatives and briefly the U.S. Senate after a successful campaign to elect U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. She’s climbed the ladder of national politics, serving for five years as the National Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee under Chairman Reince Priebus whom she worked with in Wisconsin. In January of 2016 she joined Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s presidential campaign as his Communications Director before heading to run the communications operations for the 2016 Republican Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. She is now a recovering Washingtonian who escaped the beltway bubble to come back to the real world in the Twin Cities where she grew up.

Over the past decade Kirsten has taught herself to excel in high pressure, fast paced environments. She has extensive experience in crisis communications, media relations, communications planning and strategy, grassroots advocacy, social media campaigns, media placement, opposition research, media booking, media training and writing.

In addition to statewide political, non-profit and corporate clients, Kirsten recently finished a fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics where she taught a course called “The American Political Playbook – Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It,” analyzing the 2016 election.

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