Carol Dahmen-Eckery

Carol is a native of Sacramento and comes from a political family background. She has over 25 years of political and governmental work experience covering communications, press and media relations, public policy and program management.

She has worked on Republican and Democratic campaigns but moved beyond partisan political campaigning and into the private sector over the last decade. However, she stays involved in political consulting community and serves as an Executive Board Member on the American Association of Political Consultants.

Carol joined Comcast Spotlight in 2005 in a newly created position of Political Marketing Manager. She is responsible for designing and implementing marketing strategies for political campaign and public affairs professionals to help better position spot cable advertising to increase revenue and share.

In September of 2014, she was named one of The Capitol's Best & Brightest Top 100 in California politics.

She was a member of the Governor Gray Davis Administration serving in a number of positions. As Chief Deputy Director of Communications, she developed and managed events for the Governor and oversaw government agency communications.

As Communications Director-Department of Conservation, she implemented and managed an award winning beverage container recycling campaign and oversaw all department communications.

As Deputy Director of Advance, she helped manage all public appearances of the governor. She traveled to Mexico, England and Israel and managed logistics and meeting with various dignitaries.

She also was a Deputy Political Director in the successful 1998 and 2002 gubernatorial elections.

In 2004 and 2005 she served as Communications Director for Secretary of State Kevin Shelley.

Carol’s source of inspiration for choosing to work in the political field is her late, great uncle, Lyn Nofziger. Nofziger was a longtime strategist for Governor and President Reagan.