Peter G. Mirijanian Senior Vice President
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Peter Mirijanian's professional focus is crisis and litigation communications – with a primary focus on national media – on behalf of corporate clients and law firms. He has directed and implemented communications efforts on a variety of high-profile topics, including class action suits, proposed corporate mergers, international trade disputes, casino gaming and public health issues.
Utilizing decade-long relationships with the national media, Mirijanian has initiated and managed media coverage and editorials that have appeared in national outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, along with the broadcast networks. He also has devised and executed media tours, editorial board meetings and talk radio campaigns for clients in markets across the country.
He has been a crisis communications commentator in national publications and for the FOX cable network.
In addition to being an associate and senior vice president with TheWadeGroup, Inc., Mirijanian is president of Peter Mirijanian Public Relations. Prior to founding his own firm, Mirijanian was a principal and vice president of the DCS Group and worked for three years in corporate advocacy as a senior counselor at Powell Tate. He also led nonprofit media campaigns while at Fenton Communications. He has served on the national advance staffs of the Dukakis/Bentsen ’88 campaign, the Clinton/Gore ’92 and ’96 campaigns and the Gore/Lieberman 2000 campaign, and assumed advance assignments for former Vice President Gore.
Mirijanian has served as a spokesperson for the Women's College Coalition and, in 1997, was a political advisor, along with Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution, to Anna Deveare Smith's theatrical production of “House Arrest” at Washington's Arena Stage.
He has worked as a political media consultant, was Northeast regional coordinator for People for the American Way, the nonprofit constitutional liberties organization, and, in 1984, was a press aide in the office of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Mirijanian graduated magna cum laude from Drew University and earned a Master of Arts in public policy from Georgetown University.