Paige Travis is the director of communications and public affairs at CitizensNYC. She previously worked alongside Washington D.C.'s leading communications strategists and helped launch a host of issue advocacy campaigns including 51 for 51 DC Statehood Coalition, the grand opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Protect the Investigation and Southern Black Women & Girls Consortium. During the 2020 presidential election, she served as an ad writer for the Biden-Harris campaign and served as Sr. Comms Manager during the 2018 midterm elections with Color of Change PAC. She managed media outreach for the Obama administration's rollout of the Affordable Care Act with the PR firm Weber Shandwick, and started her career working for NBC News. She graduated from journalism school at the University of Missouri and is originally from Chicago, IL.