Jill Leist

 

Jill Leist currently serves as the Communications Director at Nouveau. In this role, Jill oversees the Communications Department, managing all aspects of communications from Public Relations to Crisis Communications for all of Nouveau’s clients.

In this role, she has curated expertise in development and execution of full service public affairs campaigns involving media relations, as well as issue campaigns specializing in energy and transportation policy.

Prior to joining Nouveau, Jill worked on highly contested political campaigns across the country, executing grassroots and grasstops constituent mobilization campaigns and crisis communications.

She began her career in marketing, concentrating in quantitative and qualitative research for Fortune 500 companies.

Jill earned her B.A. from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) with a major in Journalism, and a concentration in Public Relations.

Jill is a native of California, but currently splits her time between Dallas, Texas, and Washington D.C. with her husband Erik.