Focus

Elissa Dodge is a public affairs professional with a background in both communications and government affairs.  As a senior director, Dodge provides strategic counsel and manages public affairs campaigns for a wide variety of corporate and non-profit clients, including those in the technology, aerospace, and cause-related marketing industries.

Pertinent Background & Relationships

• Before joining Qorvis, Dodge was manager of advocacy at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), where she was responsible for creating and maintaining the association’s coalition building campaigns, internal and external grassroots mobilization efforts, and conveying the association’s position on a broad range of policy issues
• Dodge garnered significant project management experience as a consultant for the State University of New York (SUNY) and then for America’s Promise, where she developed and executed strategic communications plans and directed national outreach programs.
• At the National Association of Chain Drug Stores she served as manager of communications and external affairs.  In this capacity, she developed and administered a national grass roots advocacy program, managed communications strategies and directed many of the association’s external affairs programs.
• Dodge began her career in Internet public relations, researching client trends and formulating competitor analyses while working at Bogen PR in New York.
• Dodge sits on the Board of Directors of the Alexandria Boys & Girls Club and was also elected to the Board of Directors of Women in Government Relations, where she oversees the PACs, Politics, & Grassroots Committee.

Education

Dodge graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Hofstra University with a degree in political science and marketing and attended Georgetown University for a Masters in Social & Public Policy.