Lisette McSoud Mondello is an American political advisor who served as Assistant United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs from 2006 to 2009.

Education

Mondello earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity University in San Antonio.

Career

After graduating from college, Mondello worked as a press aide for Senator

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, and Congressman James M. Collins of Texas. She worked as senior vice president for the Spaeth Communications, a communications and public relations culsultantcy firm founded by Merrie Spaeth, a former communications advisor in the Reagan Administration. She then served as executive director of the Texas Foundation for Conservative Studies and Associated Texans Against Crime. Before serving in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, she was senior advisor to the United States Secretary of Education and helped develop the long-term communications plan for the

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. Mondello was succeeded by Tammy Duckworth. Mondello has operated The Mondello Group, a government relations and communications from, since 2012.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mondello, Lisette M. Living people United States Department of Veterans Affairs officials George W. Bush administration personnel Trinity University (Texas) alumni Texas Republicans American politicians of Cuban descent Year of birth missing (living people)