Promoting Responsible Government
DECEMBER 8 MEETING - IN PERSON
Speaker |
Randy Pepple, SHIFT Washington |
Program |
The 650-Day Emergency, Redistricting Meltdown, and other Excesses of Absolute Power - and will they matter in '22 |
Date & Time |
December 8, 2021: NOON to 1:30 pm Doors Open 11:30 am |
Lunch |
Catered - $10 donation, guests $15 |
Location Map-Directions |
Squalicum Yacht Club 2633 S Harbor Loop Drive, Bellingham (adjacent to Bellingham Yacht Club) (LINK), free parking |
Program Details
Randy J. Pepple, SHIFT Washington, is a strategic communications professional with over three decades experience in public affairs consulting, policy advocacy, media relations, and political campaigns. He specializes in successfully positioning executives, candidates, and organizations with multiple stakeholders, from internal audiences and the media to elected officials and the voting public.
He currently serves clients through his own company, Pepple Communications, lectures in political science courses at the University of Washington, and is Executive Director of the Reform Alliance, a non-profit policy advocacy group he co-founded with former Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna. He managed McKenna’s 2012 gubernatorial campaign and previously served as his Chief of Staff in the AG office.
Pepple’s career experiences also include being CEO of the Northwest offices of the multinational communications consultancy Hill & Knowlton and serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Congressman Rick White (WA-01). He has put his extensive communications experience to work for a variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 50 companies to public utilities and hospital districts, specializing in crisis management and policy advocacy. He has also advised candidates, political committees, and party organizations in Washington State.
Pepple is well known in media circles, as he frequently provides political analysis for radio and TV stations across Washington. He provided regular commentary for KING 5, the NBC TV affiliate in Seattle, from 1994 to 2006, and has often appeared on KCTS, the Northwest's leading public broadcasting outlet. He worked throughout the 1980's and into the 1990’s as a freelance sportswriter, primarily with the Seattle Times, and started working in the media while in high school, for the Albuquerque Journal and KOB radio.
Active in civic affairs, Pepple was a founding board member of the Eastside Business Alliance, and remains on the board of this group representing East King County Chambers. He is a former chairman of the Alki Foundation, the political arm of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and sat on that Chamber's Board of Trustees. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the state Chamber of Commerce (the Association of Washington Business), and served on the board of the EvergreenHealth Foundation from 2009-19.
Pepple earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Washington, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He completed the Senior Managers in Government program at Harvard's Kennedy School in 1997, the same year he was a fellow with the World Affairs Council in Seattle. He is married, with two daughters, and lives with his wife Sidney in Woodinville.
He currently serves clients through his own company, Pepple Communications, lectures in political science courses at the University of Washington, and is Executive Director of the Reform Alliance, a non-profit policy advocacy group he co-founded with former Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna. He managed McKenna’s 2012 gubernatorial campaign and previously served as his Chief of Staff in the AG office.
Pepple’s career experiences also include being CEO of the Northwest offices of the multinational communications consultancy Hill & Knowlton and serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Congressman Rick White (WA-01). He has put his extensive communications experience to work for a variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 50 companies to public utilities and hospital districts, specializing in crisis management and policy advocacy. He has also advised candidates, political committees, and party organizations in Washington State.
Pepple is well known in media circles, as he frequently provides political analysis for radio and TV stations across Washington. He provided regular commentary for KING 5, the NBC TV affiliate in Seattle, from 1994 to 2006, and has often appeared on KCTS, the Northwest's leading public broadcasting outlet. He worked throughout the 1980's and into the 1990’s as a freelance sportswriter, primarily with the Seattle Times, and started working in the media while in high school, for the Albuquerque Journal and KOB radio.
Active in civic affairs, Pepple was a founding board member of the Eastside Business Alliance, and remains on the board of this group representing East King County Chambers. He is a former chairman of the Alki Foundation, the political arm of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and sat on that Chamber's Board of Trustees. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the state Chamber of Commerce (the Association of Washington Business), and served on the board of the EvergreenHealth Foundation from 2009-19.
Pepple earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Washington, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He completed the Senior Managers in Government program at Harvard's Kennedy School in 1997, the same year he was a fellow with the World Affairs Council in Seattle. He is married, with two daughters, and lives with his wife Sidney in Woodinville.
