Bill Riggs

Experience

1. Vice President Communications

   Stand Together

   Feb 2017 — Present · Arlington, VA, US

   Work across government affairs, grassroots, and issue-based leadership teams to ensure communications strategies align to Stand Together’s long-term vision and goalsProvide daily guidance on communications plans, strategy, and collateral content such as mail, television, radio and digital advertisingServe as an on-the-record spokesman for Stand Together (ST) and Americans for Prosperity (AFP), prep key principles for media, and place stories in major national outlets such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CNN and othersResponsible for rapid response and crisis communications strategies across the Stand Together community, but with a special focus on Stand Together and Americans for Prosperity Supervisor to a team of four communications directors and press secretaries focused primarily on policy communications across AFP’s partner grassroots brandsProvided guidance on communications strategy across key priority issues, such as health care, tax/spending, regulations, free speech/civil liberties, cronyism, immigration, criminal justice reform, and innovation and technology

Education

• Davidson College

  BA, Political Science

  2001 — 2005