Education
Douglass holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the.
Douglass holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the.
In June 2010, she was named Vice President, Head of Corporate and Strategic communications at Atlantic Media. She was later named Senior Vice President of Global Communications. She left that position in June, 2013 to do independent consulting.
Douglass was first associated with Barack Obama as a senior strategist and spokeswoman of his presidential campaign.
She joined his campaign on May 21, 2008. Following Obama"s victory in the November 2008 presidential elections, Douglass was appointed spokeswoman of the presidential inauguration committee.
Douglass had a long career as journalist with American Broadcasting Company News and Columbia Broadcasting System News, and began her journalism career in 1973 with KCBS-television, the Los Angeles affiliate of Columbia Broadcasting System. Douglass is married to the United States ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips.