Christy Setzer is the President of New Heights Communications, a Washington, DC public affairs firm she founded in 2010 to provide strategy and communications counsel to mission-driven clients. Setzer, a political and communications strategist with more than 25 years’ experience in national politics, crafts hard-hitting strategies that win elections, inform policy, and drive the national conversation. 

Christy started New Heights after more than a decade running communications strategies for campaigns and progressive causes. She served as a national spokesperson on the presidential campaigns of Vice President Al Gore, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, and Senator Christopher J. Dodd. She set national communications strategy and directed media relations for the AFL-CIO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Service Employees International Union. 

Christy frequently appears on cable television news, offering the Democratic perspective on political developments in Congress and news of the day. She has been a regular on CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox News Channel (she loves an opportunity for persuasion, or sometimes, a good fight). Christy also enjoys speaking to audiences on women’s leadership, public relations, and politics. In 2018, she was named one of the “top 100 most influential political professionals of the year” by Washington COMPOL magazine. She is a graduate of Vassar College and lives in Washington, DC with her husband, son and rescue-chihuahua.