Kathryn A. Serkes

Kathryn Serkes is president and founder of Square One Media Network, a strategic communications firm serving clients such as Boeing, Sheraton Hotels, Continental Airlines, Time-Warner Communications, Washington State Dairy Commission, Washington Health Care Association, and the State of Washington since 1985. Offices are located in Seattle and Washington D.C.

For more than 14 years, she has served as public affairs and policy consultant for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

She has prepared hundreds of politicians, attorneys and executives to “meet the press,” and through it, the public. She has helped clients to develop public policy and execute public education campaigns, such the Washington State Thoroughbred Racetrack Commission.

Appointed by four Administrations to serve at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, she received that agency's highest recognition, the “Director's Award for Meritorious Service.”

An Emmy-award winning producer and reporter before founding Square One, her academic credentials include the faculty of Bellevue College and Guest Lecturer at George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Hill and The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, and she's been a guest on shows such as “Larry King Live,” “The Today Show” and “The O'Reilly Factor.” She is co-author of “Patient Power: The Patient's Handbook.”

Ms. Serkes sits on the Health and Human Services Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the largest bi-partisan association of state legislators. She is founder and chair of the “Coalition Against Prosecutorial Abuse;” the “Hands Off Our Kids Coalition” to halt government pediatric vaccine mandates; and the Doctor-Patient Medical Association, a patient advocate group.