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Travis Doster is the Senior Director of Public Relations, Communications, and Public Policy for Texas Roadhouse restaurants. Founded in Clarksville, Indiana, in 1993, the company owns and operates 465 in 49 states and three countries.

In addition to overseeing internal and external communications, Travis is a member of the crisis management team and is actively involved in government relations for the $1.5 billion company.

He also serves on the board of the company’s charitable foundation. Other board positions include the ...

Tom is an attorney and one of the co-founders of New Partners Consulting in Washington, D.C. He has over 20 years of experience in Democratic politics, beginning on the Clinton-Gore Presidential campaign in 1992. After serving in the Clinton Administration at both the White House and the Pentagon, Tom has since managed successful campaign operations at the federal, state, and local level.

For the past six years, Tom has managed numerous issue advocacy and affinity building campaigns, both online and offline, ...

Before joining the firm in 2010, Jack was director of Congressional Relations for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from 2002 to 2009. During his tenure, he was the agency’s single liaison with Congress during the legislative consideration and subsequent agency implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The act was the first major effort to update the nation’s consumer product safety laws since 1991.

Jack has 22 years of experience serving on Capitol Hill. He was ...

Meaghan Killion Joyce is the Political Affairs Manager for International Paper and directs IP’s political advocacy programs, including the IP PAC and the IP VOTES employee grassroots and voter education program. During her tenure, Meaghan led a major revitalization and re-branding effort of both the PAC and grassroots programs, more than doubling PAC receipts as well as participation in the company’s grassroots program.

Before joining IP, Meaghan spent nearly nine years working at the International Dairy Foods Association in a variety ...

Katharine Emerson is the manager of government affairs for Monsanto Company and is based in their Washington, DC office. Katharine manages the Monsanto Citizenship Fund, the company’s political action committee and also works on issues related to food and nutrition security and partnerships.

Prior to joining Monsanto in 2009, Katharine was the senior director of business development for the American Heart Association and worked in political fundraising for the 2004 and 2008 congressional elections. She has her Bachelors degree in Politics ...