Dave Quast is a strategic communications advisor and founder and principal of EDQ Strategies, with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations and individuals navigate crises, reputational challenges, litigation, and other high-stakes situations. His work spans crisis and issues management, corporate reputation, litigation communications, public affairs, and media strategy.

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Dave spent 12 years at FTI Consulting, advising clients on complex communications and public affairs matters across a range of industries. He has also held senior in-house communications positions at a Fortune 10 company and an Am Law 100 law firm. Earlier in his career, he served as press secretary to the chair of a U.S. House committee, director of public affairs at a Washington, D.C. think tank, and chief of staff to a Washington state senator.

 

A longtime adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Dave teaches strategic communications courses focused on research and data, business and economics, and communications law and ethics. He has also conducted crisis communications workshops for election officials and civic leaders across the country through the USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative.

 

His community involvement has included more than a decade of board service with Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley and Planned Parenthood Advocates. Dave holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and attended Georgetown University Law Center.

 

Dave lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Eileen, an entertainment communications executive. They have four children, including triplets in college.

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