lisa ross
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</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px;">Lisa Osborne Ross was named CEO of Edelman's U.S. operation in April 2021. Ross became the first Black woman to run a PR operation of that size.</span><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-33" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[33]</a></sup></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="GEO_Group_private_prison">GEO Group private prison</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Edelman supported private prison company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group" title="GEO Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">GEO Group</a> and helped in "laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps" in July 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_65-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:1-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[65]</a></sup> In May 2019, executives from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> office, including office president Lisa Ross and former Trump White House deputy press secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Walters" title="Lindsay Walters" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Lindsay Walters</a>, went to Florida to present the pitch.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[66]</a></sup> In June, when word spread across the company that the work was being pursued, debate sprang up on networking app <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fishbowl(application)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fishbowl (application) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(186, 0, 0); background: none;">Fishbowl</a>. The work was resigned by Edelman in July 2019 and announced during an all-hands meeting in Washington. On Fishbowl, an employee commented that the executives "took the opportunity to basically shame us for ruining the work for the company because they couldn't trust us not to leak it to the press."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[66]</a></sup> Other employees on Fishbowl made similar comments.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[66]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The company's official response was that "Edelman takes on complex and diverse clients ... and ultimately decided not to proceed with this work."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[66]</a></sup> Edelman also refused to confirm they did similar work for another major private prison company, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreCivic" title="CoreCivic" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">CoreCivic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman_(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[66]</a></sup></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div>