Annie Lydgate is a strategic communications consultant whose specialties include storytelling, audience targeting, campaign management, grassroots engagement and corporate reputation. Lydgate’s work spans many sectors, including organized labor, renewable energy, non-profit, technology, higher education and more.
Beginning in 2009, Lydgate worked across Chicago, New York and Boston as an early member of the leading national public affairs firm Kivvit. Lydgate’s work and leadership while there contributed to more than a decade of positive growth and expansion for the firm as well as major policy, business and regulatory wins for her clients.
Prior to Kivvit, Lydgate worked for AKPD Message & Media, the political consulting firm founded by David Axelrod. During the 2008 presidential election, Lydgate served as Midwest field organizer for the New Voters Project, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter registration effort.
Lydgate is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and lives in Boston.