DDC Advocacy’s Director of Marketing, Jenn Barton, was recently profiled in National Journal’s People section by reporter Gregg Sangillo:

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Sometimes a sibling can help point you in the right direction. When Jennifer L. Barton's sister attended Georgetown University in the 1990s, Barton visited her in Washington. "I loved it, and I came back the next year and I did an internship at C-SPAN," she says. She returned to Washington the following year and eventually became a legislative assistant to then-Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y. Fast-forward to 2010: Barton is still in D.C., now as Director of Marketing for DDC Advocacy, an issue-advocacy and public-affairs firm. In the interim, she handled government affairs for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where her involvement in the appropriations process, she says, involved "a lot of asking for money for a good cause."

Barton spent the past decade at Capitol Advantage, most recently serving as marketing manager. Capitol Advantage, which publishes directories and does online advocacy work, was acquired by the Roll Call Group in 2008. Of the online advocacy business, she says, "I've really just seen it grow. And now I've come full circle [at DDC], where I can work in what I think is really the most innovative, energetic environment that I could be in."

Barton is from Montgomery County, Pa., outside of Philadelphia, and earned a B.A. in English at nearby Villanova University. In her spare time, she writes a fashion blog called The Medestrian. "The thing that's so great about it is, once you have it set up, you can just write whenever you can," she says.

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