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LPA Talent Continues to Grow: Michelle Baker & Brooke Sperbeck Promoted to Account Executives

SACRAMENTO — Lucas Public Affairs (LPA), a leading California-based public affairs firm, has promoted Michelle Baker and Brooke Sperbeck to account executives, the firm announced today. In their new roles, Michelle and Brooke will take on more responsibility for managing projects that support LPA clients in the areas of education, energy, healthcare, and travel and […]

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SACRAMENTO BEE: Millennials have key role in shaping capital’s future

The city of Sacramento can portray two dramatically different images: One a boring and staid government town, slow to embrace change as political parties do battle over state issues. The other is one of a trendsetter for groundbreaking ideas that generate policies with global impact and a rapidly evolving downtown that is attracting the next […]

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SACRAMENTO BEE: Sacramento-area marketing, communications firms in growth mode

Sacramento’s Lucas Public Affairs has had three new additions and moved into a larger office space this year, and founder Donna Lucas told me she’s always on the lookout for more talent. Merlot Marketing, also in Sacramento, recently added five people to its team. And Roseville’s Prosio Communications started the year with seven employees but expects […]

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SACRAMENTO BUSINESS JOURNAL: MICHELLE BAKER

People on the Move Michelle Baker provides client support with research, writing and social media projects in the areas of health care and education. Prior to joining Lucas Public Affairs, Baker interned at Swanson Communications, assisting in media tracking, research, and compiling and drafting social media posts. Date added: August 24, 2015 Submission Type: New Hire Current […]

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LPA Unveils New Office, New Website, and Staff Promotions

Sacramento, CA (August 19, 2015) – Lucas Public Affairs, a leading California public affairs firm known for its work on complex public policy issues, today announced it has a new office, new website and new staff members, all part of the firm’s continued commitment to serving clients at the crossroads of policy, politics and communications. […]

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SACRAMENTO BUSINESS JOURNAL: JUSTIN KNIGHTEN

Justin Knighten, Vice President at Lucas Public Affairs, manages public affairs and communications campaigns for a variety of the firm’s clients on issues ranging from renewable energy, Internet and technology, health care, travel and tourism, education and biotechnology. Read the profile, here.

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CAPITOL WEEKLY TOP 100 LIST FOR 2014

28. Donna Lucas Communications strategist Donna Lucas of Lucas Public Affairs worked as a campaign press aide and learned the insides of the Capitol during the Deukmejian administration. She learned her lessons well: She has developed into a major communications force and is a go-to person for companies and people — State Fund, Chevron, Maria […]

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JAY AND CARRI ZIEGLER HONORED FOR WORK ON SCHOOL TAX CAMPAIGNS

Davis voters did something rather remarkable in recent years. In an era of ebbing state support for public education, local voters approved five school parcel tax measures in as many years, generating millions of dollars in local funding that counterbalanced many of the funding reductions and deferrals stemming from California’s state budget crisis and the […]

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CAPITOL MORNING REPORT

KEEPING UP Public Policy Institute of California reports Phil Isenberg, a former Asm. and current chair of the Delta Stewardship Council, has joined its board of directors. He replaces Gary K. Hart, who also served in the Legislature and was later Education Secty. in the Gray Davis administration. Hart stepped down after completing the maximum three terms of three years each on PPIC’s board. Donna Lucas, president […]

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CAPITOL WEEKLY TOP 100 FOR 2013

29.Donna Lucas Communications strategist Donna Lucas of Lucas Public Affairs worked as a campaign press aide and learned the insides of the Capitol during the Deukmejian administration. She learned her lessons well: She has developed into a major communications force and is a go-to person for companies and people — State Fund, Chevron, Maria Shriver […]

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