Former Biden COVID messaging aide lands at Disney amid ‘wokeness’ turmoil

The Walt Disney Firm has introduced Kristina Schake, who had led President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine training efforts, will function its government vice chairman of world communications.

In her new function, Schake, who additionally served as international communications director for Instagram, will report back to Chief Company Affairs Officer Geoff Morrell and “be accountable for the Firm’s worldwide communications technique and operations, whereas additionally serving as lead spokesperson,” based on Disney.

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“I couldn’t be extra happy to welcome Kristina to Disney and to have her main communications for the corporate,” Morrell stated in a press release. 

Schake was appointed in 2021 by Biden as counselor to the secretary for strategic communications on the Division of Well being and Human Companies and departed on the finish of the yr. She beforehand served because the deputy communications director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign and as a particular assistant to former President Obama and communications director for former first woman Michelle Obama.

Schake, a Johns Hopkins College graduate and a local of Sonoma, California, stated she is “excited to guide the corporate’s international communications work at this pivotal second of development and transformation.”

The grand opening ceremony for Walt Disney World’s Fantasyland in Lake Buena Vista, Florida December 6, 2012.
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Schake’s arrival on the firm comes amid Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Training invoice that was lately signed into regulation by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The regulation prohibits Florida academics from instructing very younger college students — these in kindergarten via third grade — about gender id and sexual orientation.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek on Could 8, 2016 in Orlando, Florida.
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Regardless of critics branding it a “Do not Say Homosexual” invoice, the measure doesn’t ban the phrase “homosexual” in class settings. 

Disney condemned the invoice in an official assertion late final month.

“Florida’s HB 1557, also called the ‘Don’t Say Homosexual’ invoice, ought to by no means have handed and may by no means have been signed into regulation,” the assertion, posted on the Walt Disney Firm’s Twitter web page, reads. “Our objective as an organization is for this regulation to be repealed by the legislature or struck down within the courts, and we stay dedicated to supporting the nationwide and state organizations working to realize that.”

Fox Information’ Maureen Mackey contributed to this text.