Jill zuckman biography

Jill Zuckman
Managing Director
SKDKnickerbocker

@SKDKnick

Jill Zuckman specializes in public affairs and crisis communications at SKDKnickerbocker, working with many of the country's best known corporations and managing complex issue campaigns.

She is well known for leading the communications effort to free Alan Gross, an American imprisoned in Cuba for more than five years. Over the course of his imprisonment, Jill kept the media engaged in Alan's case – building public pressure to force the U.S.

government to strike a deal with Cuba and bring Alan home.

PR News named Jill one of the "Top Women in PR" for and the Sabre Awards gave her its "Citizenship" award for that work.

Before joining SKDK, Jill was an award-winning political correspondent and then served as assistant to the secretary and director of public affairs for Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

At the Department of Transportation, Jill was responsible for developing the Secretary's nation