Hope Hicks (21 October 1988-) was White House Director of Strategic Communications from 20 January to 12 September 2017 (preceding Mercedes Schlapp), White House Director of Communications from 16 August 2017 to 29 March 2018 (succeeding Anthony Scaramucci and preceding Bill Shine), and Counselor to the President from 9 March 2020 (succeeding Johnny DeStefano).
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Hope Hicks was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1988, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and an administrative aid to Democratic congressman Ed Jones. She was a teenage model before working in public relations in New York City, working with Ivanka Trump on her fashion line and on other Trump ventures before joining the Trump Organization full-time in August 2014. In 2015, Donald Trump chose Hicks as press secretary for his 2016 presidential election campaign, helping to write his tweets. During Trump's presidency, she served as the first White House Director of Strategic Communications, and she later served as Communications Director and as Counselor to the President. On 1 October 2020, she tested positive for COVID-19 not long after attending a Trump rally.