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Greg Mecher is a Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Strategic Communications Public Affairs team. Greg has extensive political experience at the Federal level, with more than two decades leading high-performing teams to solve complex political and policy challenges.
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Apr 15, 2022 · Meet Gregory Mecher, Jen Psaki's Husband. Jen Psaki has become a welcome face in the Briefing Room since becoming the White House Press Secretary. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Psaki is the eldest of three daughters to retired real estate developer James R. Psaki and psychotherapist Eileen Dolan Medvey (via Greenwich Time ).
- A Good Delhi Upbringing
- Every Vote Counts
- A Fateful Softball Game
- Wrong-Way Turn
- So What Are Obama and Biden like?
- The Eye of The Storm
- On Fear and Chili
Psaki credits her husband's family and Delhi upbringing for his successful, behind-the-scenes career in Washington, D.C. It's also what drew her to him. “He is so comfortable in his own skin with who he is,” Psaki said. “He could be in a room with 5-year-old kids, he could be in a room with billionaires, he could be in a room on a factory floor and...
Mecher’s journey to the center of the nation’s politics began with a nail-biter of an election in 1998. That year, Mecher, in his final year of college as a communications/television production major at Northern Kentucky University, won election as student government president by three votes. It was the only time he ran for office. Mecher's affable...
The late NKU Board of Regents member and philanthropist Alice Sparks noticed something in the 22-year-old communications major. She recommended him for an internship with Democratic U.S. Rep. Ken Lucas after he graduated. His parents drove him to Washington, D.C. in 1999. His new home was a rented room. He's remained in Washington ever since. His i...
Seven years after that pivotal softball game, in 2006, he met a fellow Democratic staffer, Jen Psaki. Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor and President Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, takes credit for introducing them, Mecher said, but that's only slightly true. Though Emanuel was there when they first met in Philadelphia. No, it was bad ...
He's met Obama and Biden, but usually as the plus-one with his wife. He described Obama as an "incredibly talented human being and orator" and Biden as an authentic and down-to-earth guy who "values family over anything." When Mecher wants to explain Biden, he looks back to a cookout in 2016. Biden was vice president at the time. It was the Biden B...
Politics isn't all squirt gun fights, though. His wife is now the face of the White House, and the target of all the praise and criticism that comes with that. When the opportunity came for his wife to be press secretary, Mecher was all in, Psaki said. “He was the first to say, of course, you should have the conversation, of course, you should go f...
Mecher, himself, has taken a step back from some of it. He's working as a consultant and raising his two children. Looking back on his two decades in Washington, he said the biggest change in politics is the inability of the two parties to work together. House districts aren't competitive in general elections so members only play to the extreme sid...
- Psaki & Mecher Met Through Work at the DCCC & Mecher Said He Was Nervous About Asking Psaki on a Date. Mecher and Psaki met because of their shared interest in politics.
- The Coupled Moved in Together After the 2008 Election & Later Tied the Knot on a Farm in Maryland. Mecher and Psaki moved in together after the 2008 election was over and Mecher proposed a few months later.
- Mecher Grew Up in Cincinnati & Attended a Boys Catholic High School. Mecher was born in September 1976 and was raised in southern Ohio. According to the wedding announcement, Mecher’s mother taught 4th grade at a Catholic elementary school in Cincinnati.
- Mecher Has Been Working in Politics for His Entire Career. Mecher began working in politics as a college student. In a 2018 feature for NKU Magazine, Mecher recalled serving as the “student representative to the Board of Regents.”
Mar 19, 2023 · Updated: 14:21 ET, Mar 19 2023. JEN Psaki is an American political advisor who served as the 34th White House press secretary. Prior to that role, she married Gregory Mecher in 2010. 2. Gregory Mecher works as a Democratic political aide.
Jennifer Rene Psaki [1] ( / ˈsɑːki /; born December 1, 1978) [2] [3] is an American television political analyst and former government official. A political advisor who served under both the Obama and Biden administrations, she served the Biden administration as the 34th White House press secretary [4] until May 2022.
