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Punya Krishnappa Named Senior Strategist for Michael Rosenbaum Maryland Gubernatorial Campaign

Punya Krishnappa Named Senior Strategist for Michael Rosenbaum Maryland Gubernatorial Campaign

  • The Indian American has previously worked for President Obama’s White House campaigns and for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Michael Rosenbaum, the Baltimore tech entrepreneur who launched his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last week, has hired Punya Krishnappa as his campaign’s senior strategist. Most recently Krishnappa served as deputy national field director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Prior to that she was the Director of States for Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote initiative. She has also worked for President Obama’s White House campaigns and for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“It’s time to bring equity and fairness to the forefront and Mike Rosenbaum has the vision to do it,” Krihnappa tweeted last week. 

As deputy national field director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Washington, D.C., Krishnappa, who is trained in  communications, digital, research and field tactics, ran the largest and earliest field investment program in the committee’s history.

She graduated from Bradley University in 2011with a BA in Public Relations, Advertising and Applied Communications.  

In an article titled “I Found My Voice Here” in Bradley magazine, Krishnappa writes: “When I started at Bradley in the fall of 2007, I had every intention of being the next Christiane Amanpour. But I’m not sure I would have stumbled so gracefully into the political world if it weren’t for my Bradley experience..” recollecting how it all started, she said: “It started that same fall when Anna Ruch ’10 asked me to volunteer for a trip to Iowa. I went from knocking on doors on weekends in Cedar Rapids for then-Sen. Barack Obama to organizing trips to Missouri, Wisconsin and Indiana. Little did I know I would take off the fall semester of my sophomore year to work for him in North Carolina during the general election.”

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She continued: “From there, my curiosity about not just our democracy, but democracies around the world led me to experience a different political institution when I interned at the London Parliament during my semester abroad. But it didn’t stop there.. She said one of her “fondest memories” is the year she spent in Iowa in 2015 leading up to the start of the 2016 primaries. “A presidential campaign is the political Super Bowl, and working for Sen. Hillary Clinton was inspiring every day. Working with so many talented people was beyond what I could have expected.” 

After a brief hiatus post-2016 — a year in the hospitality industry — she returned to politics as director of states for Michelle Obama’s civic engagement initiative, When We All Vote. “Focused solely on motivating people to vote, the initiative aimed to change the culture around voting,” Krishnappa wrote in the magazine.

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