John Czwartacki
Lecturer, Executive Director for External Communication, Verizon

Phone: (202) 994-6227
Fax: (202) 994-5806
E-mail: cz@greenerandhook.com
Office: MPA 425

Expertise

Courses Taught

PCM 152, Public Affairs and Government Information

Selected Works

Background

John S. Czwartacki is a partner at Greener and Hook, a Washington, D.C. communications consulting firm specializing in political and corporate communications and earned media.

In the 10 years prior to his consulting career, Czwartacki held various public relations positions within the Republican Party. From 1998 to 2000, he was press secretary for then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS). He was chief spokesman and political strategist to Rep. Bill Paxon (R-NY), former chair of the House Republican leadership until his retirement in February 1998. He was director of state press for the Dole-Kemp '96 campaign where he directed 50 state press offices. For two years prior to that he was chief spokesman and media contact for the House Republican Conference where he was a member of the senior communications strategy team for House and Senate Republicans and conducted weekly briefings for all House Republican press secretaries.

Czwartacki was spokesman for the Republican National Committee's Chicago Truth Squad. And in 1996, he served as an on-the-record spokesman for the Republican National Committee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Prior to that he served as press secretary for Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), one of the 103rd Congress' leading reformers. In this capacity he worked for Boehner from the congressman's freshman year through his election to House leadership.

For the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston, Czwartacki served as a public affairs officer and assistant to the office of the communications director. While still an undergraduate student at GW, he was a special assistant for public affairs for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development where he assisted Secretary Jack Kemp's senior staff with media relations, news conferences and public appearances for the secretary. In 1991, he supervised the accreditation of more than 5,000 members of the national media for the Desert Storm homecoming parade in Washington, D.C. And in 1988 he was a staff assistant for the Campaign for a New Majority for then Rep. Jack Kemp's political action committee.

Education

B.A., Political Communications, The George Washington University, 1992