PERSON: Phil Walzak

Office of New York Mayor

Press Secretary

Phillip Walzak serve as Press Secretary, where he will manage the Mayor’s press office and operations. Walzak served as Senior Communications Advisor for the New Yorkers for de Blasio campaign. He came to New York from Wisconsin, where he served as a senior communications staffer on the historic campaign of Tammy Baldwin, the first openly LGBT member of the U.S. Senate.

Walzak previously worked as Communications Director in the battleground state of Wisconsin for the Obama Campaign in 2008. In 2009, he was appointed Director of Strategic Communications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A veteran of many campaigns, Walzak also served on Capitol Hill as press secretary for two Members of Congress. Walzak is a Brooklyn resident and a graduate of the University of Chicago.

— 1.nyc.gov