February 2, 2023
OPEN POSITION: SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Winning Advocacy & Public Affairs Campaigns.
From strengthening communities to enhancing common sense public policy and expanding equality, our team of seasoned professionals based in Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York are equipped with the know-how and network to get the job done.
Civitas works with leaders from across the political spectrum to forge bold, bipartisan government relations plans and to craft cutting-edge communications and marketing campaigns. We are at the helm of shaping public policy at the local, state, and federal levels. And we have the track record to prove it.
We know that for substantive wins with lasting results, this work has to be done on both sides of the aisle. Our team includes Democrats, Republicans, and Independents with deep and long-lasting relationships at the local, state, and federal level. We work with the leading pollsters and consultants from across the political spectrum who share our commitment to results.
Civitas is led by founding partners Patrick Guerriero and Bill Smith, managing partner Katherine Grainger, and partner Marc Solomon. All four partners played significant roles in securing marriage equality nationwide. Bill and Patrick spearheaded the groundbreakingly successful Gill Action effort to enact state laws on relationship recognition and bring conservatives into the bipartisan effort, a key part of the comprehensive strategy to get the U.S. Supreme Court to grant same-sex couples marriage rights nationwide. Katherine served as assistant counsel for civil rights to the Governor of New York where she helped write and negotiate New York’s marriage equality law. It is because of Katherine’s multi-issue expertise and intersectional knowledge, that gaining marriage rights for gay and lesbian New Yorkers did not inadvertently undercut the state’s existing civil rights protections. Marc served as a key architect of the movement and the national campaign director for Freedom to Marry. He wrote the acclaimed book on the political and organizing strategy behind the movement: Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits – and Won.
Similarly, each of the principals at Civitas has experience leading national movements that drive lasting and transformational change. James Dozier leads the firm’s right-of-center client portfolio and previously led Gill Action’s electoral and legislative efforts in New England and the Mountain West. Denise Feriozzi served as the deputy executive director at EMILY’s List where she led efforts to recruit, train, and elect progressive women at the state and local levels and ran the WOMEN VOTE! program, including an historic effort that elected the U.S. Senate’s first openly LGBT senator. Celine Mizrahi has spent her career working at the intersection of politics, policy, and organizing as an advocate for economic justice, workers’ rights, democracy, and civil rights, including for over a decade as a senior team member for U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and for the New York City Council.
We are proud of the issues and organizations we choose to work with at Civitas – all of which represent our shared value set and the difference we hope to make in society.
Civitas is led by founding partners Patrick Guerriero and Bill Smith, managing partner Katherine Grainger, and partner Marc Solomon. Working with in-house experts and leaders from across the political spectrum, the Civitas team forges bold, bipartisan government relations plans and crafts cutting-edge communications and marketing campaigns.
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OPEN POSITION: SENIOR ASSOCIATE
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