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Campaign experts Patti Solis Doyle and Karen Finney are joining the Flies this week for an exciting discussion on what the Biden campaign is looking for in a VP, the role of the VP candidate on the campaign trail, and their thoughts on what Joe Biden’s decision may be.

Patti Solis Doyle served as chief of staff to Joe Biden during the 2008 vice-presidential campaign, and throughout her career has served on numerous campaigns including Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign in 2008.

Karen Finney, a former director of communications at the DNC, was a senior advisor and senior spokeswoman to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Tim Kaine’s vice-presidential campaign.

In the next installment of our Summer 2020 Season, the Flies interview Drew Rodriguez, a Regional Organizing Director for Joe Biden for President. Since graduating from Georgetown, Rodriguez has worked on the campaign trail across the country, including in NV, SC, and FL.

This week, the Flies are bringing you an interview with Amber Athey, the Washington Editor for Spectator USA, and host of the “Unfit to Print” podcast by the Daily Caller, where she was formerly White House Correspondent. Amber is a Hoya and Tony Blankley Fellow at the Steamboat Institute.

Welcome back to FOTW! To kick off our first-ever summer season, we’re excited today to bring you a conversation with Michelle Jaconi, an executive producer at the Washington Post, former Hoya, and member of GU Politics’ advisory board. At the Post, she runs the creative video team, where she has spearheaded the Post’s success on Tik Tok and other programming. Previously, Jaconi worked at CNN and with NBC’s Meet the Press, where she earned multiple awards including the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Media a Peabody for CNN’s coverage of the Arab Spring, and back to back Emmy Awards for presidential election nights, at two different networks.

Fly on the Wall is excited to bring you a special BONUS EPISODE interviewing Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX-23). Congressman Hurd discusses his years in public service including time as a CIA Intelligence Officer and as an elected official representing the southwestern border region of Texas since 2015.

For our Season 7 finale, we're bringing you an interview with Congressman Joe Crowley (D-NY)! Congressman Crowley represented New York's 14th congressional district for nearly 20 years, throughout which he was on the frontline of Democratic leadership and numerous legislative efforts. He was a Spring 2020 GU Politics Fellow and served in the New York State Assembly before being elected to Congress.

The Flies are back this week bringing you an interview with Robert Traynham, the Head of Public Affairs for Facebook in Washington, DC. Robert is a GU Politics Spring 2020 Fellow with extensive experience in communications as a staffer on the Hill, as a TV host for MSNBC, and in the private sector.

This week, the Flies are excited to bring you an interview with Jess Morales Rocketto, the Executive Director of Care in Action and Political Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Jess's career has spanned from community organizing, activism, to work on the presidential campaigns for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Tune in for FOTW's first virtual interview with Mike Ricci, Communications Director for Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. Ricci shares his experience communicating the response to the current COVID-19 crisis and previously served on the staff to former House Speakers Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and John Boehner (R-Ohio).

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Today's episode features Eric Trump (MSB '06), campaign surrogate for the Trump 2020 reelection campaign and Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. The episode was recorded on February 25, 2020.

The Flies have transitioned to virtual production and are dedicated to bringing you new and exciting content in the future. We each of our listeners is safe and healthy in these rapidly changing times.