Johanna Maska

[4] Beginning in June 2007 Iowa caucuses, Maska worked for the Obama campaign.

[5] She worked as Director of Press Advance for President Obama in the White House.

In 2015, she left the White House moving from DC to LA, recruited by Austin Beutner to join the Los Angeles Times senior leadership team.

[10] Maska has spoken about families balancing it all, as she had her son while working at the White House.

[11] [12] She organized the President's Address to the Nation from Afghanistan seven weeks after she gave birth to her son.