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Stephanie Craig - Kith Communications
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Kith’s President, Stephanie Craig, has built her reputation as a crisis expert by guiding some of the world’s most prominent people and organizations through their most trying moments. Combining her deep experience in politics, media and business, she mitigates crisis, repairs reputations and inoculates against future crises.
Prior to joining Kith, Stephanie was the founder and CEO of the Apeiron Strategy Group where she counted former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and the mayor of the nation’s 10th largest city as clients. When not handling crisis, Stephanie used her company to support causes she cares about by helping to establish the groundbreaking group — I Am ALS and chairing the Force to End Harassment in Advocacy as an effort during the #Metoo movement.
In her career, Stephanie has guided media organizations, Fortune 50 tech companies and members of the House and Senate in the United States and Canada through some of their most trying days. She sharpened her crisis skills on several campaigns including three presidentials. She is a battleground specialist and likely the only person to have worked in both houses on Capitol Hill and Parliament Hill.
Having known Kith's founder, Bill Coletti, since their time at Public Strategies, Stephanie jumped at the chance to work together again because of their shared belief that there is a better way to be a crisis consultant — the Kith way.
SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Holds distinction as one of the only people to ever work in the U.S. House and Senate, and the Canadian House and Senate.
- Led efforts for Fortune 50 CEO’s campaign to raise over $5 million to support his chairmanship of a corporate giving campaign.
- Ran the global stakeholder network for a multinational technology company preserving billions of dollars.
- Developed and executed the 2020 political strategy for a former First Lady.
- Partnered to create, launch and grow a leading women’s organization.
- Created a marketing and communications department for a global media and insights company that enabled them to completely shift their image in the midst of a complete change to their business-model, which has helped the company go from losing money to posting a $27 million profit in 2020.
- Navigated the nation’s largest and most comprehensive tech policy group through lawsuits, corporate espionage, CEO transition and merger.
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Stephanie Craig
President, Kith
202-329-7545
linkedin.com/in/craigstephanie
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