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earned graduate degrees in po-litical management from George Washington University in 2001 and since have worked together intermittently on political and advocacy campaigns. More re-cently they shared some clients’ projects. “We tend to be aggres-sive and strategic in our media outreach coming from a politi-cal campaign background,” says Luna, “But we also have a comple-mentary and diverse set of experi-

ences that we’re able to combine to leverage on behalf of clients.”

Eisenla was a communications aide for Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s failed presidential bid in 2004, and was a spokesman for Oklahoma Rep. Brad Carson’s

unsuccessful race for the Sen-ate that year. Luna was Carson’s campaign manager. Luna was communications director for the Human Rights Campaign from 2005 to 2010, while Eisenla went on to work for the progressive ad-vocacy group Americans United, for Democratic Reps. Sander M. Levin of Michigan and Diana DeGette of Colorado and for the public affairs firm Widmeyer Communications.

On the Move People in new roles shaping t he debate in Washington

The Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank founded by four former Senate majority leaders to come up with centrist solutions to difficult policy problems, has hired for-mer Energy Department policy adviser and nuclear engineer Timothy A. Frazier as a senior adviser for the center’s new nuclear-waste initiative.

Former Department of Homeland Secu-rity official Theresa Cardinal Brown is the center’s new director of immigration policy. replacing Rebecca Tallent, a former chief of staff to Republican Sen. John McCain

of Arizona, who now works for House Speak-er John A. Boehner of Ohio as a special assis-tant. Brown has man-aged her own consult-ing firm for the past year and a half.

Frazier, 51, was most recently a senior ad-viser at the Washington law and lobbying firm Dickstein Shapiro, where he advised attorneys on the nuclear-power industry. Before joining the firm in 2012, he spent 22 years with the

Energy Department, and in his last job he was the designated federal officer for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.

Frazier was also a senior technical adviser to Dennis R. Spurgeon, assistant Energy secre-tary for nuclear energy in the George W. Bush administration. He had been an engineer at Mound Laboratories in Ohio, a now-closed government site for nuclear-weapons and nuclear-energy research.

The Bipartisan Policy Center formed a task force on immigration policy in early 2013, and it published recommendations last August. Brown is now working on specific proposals, designing policy studies and coordinating re-gional meetings to back the task force’s work.

She hopes it will provide Congress and the administration with bipartisan expertise and facts. Whether or not Congress takes up im-migration this year, Brown says the need to change the law won’t go away. “The fact that we haven’t seriously updated immigration law for some time now is one of the reasons we’re in the fix that we are,” she says.

In the 1990s, Brown worked for a company that evaluated foreign workers’ education credentials for H-1B visas and helped file im-migration cases at law firms. She later worked for the American Immigration Lawyers Asso-ciation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce before joining U.S. Customs and Border Pro-tection as a policy adviser in 2005. She stayed in government for six and half years and was director of the Department of Homeland Se-curity’s immigration task force in 2006. After that, she was a DHS director of Canadian af-fairs and the department’s attache at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa.

— Kristin Coyner

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Former White House legislative affairs aide Nicole Isaac has joined the Group, a political and policy consulting firm started three years ago by prominent Democratic donors and former lobbyists Broderick Johnson and Arthur Collins. Johnson left in January for the White House, where he is assistant to President Barack Obama and his Cabinet’s secretary.

The Group describes itself as a consult-ing firm that provides advice on strategy, policy and communications and says that its clients include Fortune 100 companies, trade associations and business executives. It doesn’t disclose who those clients are be-cause it says it doesn’t fall under lobbying registration laws.

“What we do,” says Isaac, “is ensure that clients have access to information and that we use our backgrounds and experiences to help advise them in a manner that can be most effective as they take the next steps with respect to their policies or their decisions. But it is definitely not any way lobbying.”

Isaac, 35, who was a Democratic aide in the House and the Senate before joining the administration, was a White House liaison to the House Financial Services, Appropria-tions and Judiciary committees as well as the Congressional Black Caucus.

Before working for Obama, she was dep-uty legislative director for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. She had previously been a floor counsel to Democratic Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and an as-sistant counsel for the House Office of Legislative Counsel. In between jobs on the Hill she was clerk for the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

bruce harvie The former spokesman for Republican Rep. Michael C. Burgess of Texas, Bruce Harvie, has left Capitol Hill for Burton Kamins Advocacy. The lobbying and pub-lic affairs firm was started last year by Jeff Burton, a former deputy executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Scott Kamins, a former deputy chief of staff for the Republican Na-tional Committee.

On the firm’s lobbying side, clients in-clude the American Land Title Association, IBM, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and cheesemaker Leprino Foods. The firm also advises political campaigns and super PACs. “A lot of times we combine Hill visits,” says Harvie, “with campaign-type advocacy be-forehand, leading up to a visit, so we’ve kind of softened the ground. We’re trying to find ways to combine the two worlds.”

Harvie, 34, worked for Burgess for the past year. Before that he worked for Republican campaigns and political consulting firms. During the 2012 general-election cycle, he was campaign manager for Republican Martha McSally, who narrowly lost a bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Ron Barber in Arizona.

— Kristin Coyner

research

steven FeldmanThe Human Animal Bond Research Initiative Foundation was established in 2010 by pet supplier Petco, the American Pet Products Association and Zoetis, a maker of animal medicines, to support research on the health benefits of having pets. Since then the foundation has grown to 20 other companies and animal health groups and has hired a full-time executive director, Steven Feldman, a senior vice president for external affairs at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

The foundation is still de-veloping proposals for greater acceptance of animals in public places and federal health programs. “We have a body of evidence that shows that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder really benefit from these relation-ships,” says Feldman, 48. “How can we work with the Veterans Administration to make sure that more returning soldiers can benefit from having animals?”

Feldman was previously with public af-fairs firms Powell Tate and Shandwick Public Affairs, now Weber Shandwick. From 1992 to 1995 he was a scheduler and executive assistant for Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr., a Michigan Republican.

steven clauser The Patient-Centered Outcomes Re-search Institute, which was established by the 2010 health care law to give patients and physicians better information about which treatments work best, has appointed former Na-tional Cancer Institute execu-tive Steven Clauser to direct its Improving Healthcare Systems program. He succeeds Chad Boult, a former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid official.

“We’re looking for research to try to look at those different drivers of change — technology, personnel and incentives and resources — to try to build that evidence base,” says Clauser.

Clauser, 61, was chief of outcomes research and associate director of oncology research at the Cancer Institute.

Before joining the institute, he directed CMS’s quality measurement and health as-sessment group and its office of research. He also has had health policy research jobs at the Department of Defense, the American Medi-cal Association and McGraw-Hill.

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ha nguyen Former Homeland Se-curity Department execu-tive Ha Nguyen has been

appointed chief of staff for a Washington trade group for business software compa-nies called BSA: The Software Alliance. The group’s CEO is Victoria Espinel, who last summer left her White House job as the first U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator.

Nguyen, 33, spent more than seven years with Homeland Security, most recently as chief of staff for the Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Global Strategies, which makes sure that international flights to the United States meet agency standards. She was twice detailed to the White House, first working for Espinel on customs author-ity and border enforcement issues, then as director for aviation security at the National Security Council. She also was a policy ad-viser for Homeland Security’s international trade and Asia Pacific work.