Abstract
The American Psychological Association (APA) has named Katherine B. McGuire its first chief advocacy officer, responsible for implementing a unified, strategic vision for the association's government relations efforts and coordinating the APA's broader advocacy initiatives in nongovernmental sectors. With more than 25 years of senior‐level policy experience in Congress, the executive branch and the private sector, McGuire was most recently assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor. In that post, she focused on appropriations, budget priorities and regulatory matters. McGuire begins serving in the new post Jan. 22. Her mandate will include working with the APA and its companion APA Services Inc. to merge the approximately 24 government relations staff into a single department and ensuring the APA speaks with one voice before Congress, federal agencies and the White House, APA officials stated. McGuire will also be responsible for growing psychology's political action committee, Psychology PAC.
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