FCC chairman's Press Secretary Tina Pelkey leaves for Blue Origin, where she's named senior manager-government affairs communication ... Other FCC Office of Media Relations changes: new deputy director-communications is Anne Veigle, from NTIA; Will Wiquist advances to associate director-communications and policy adviser and Katie Gorscak to senior communications adviser.

Center for Democracy & Technology, where Alexandra Reeve Givens started as planned Monday as president-CEO (see this section, March 11), hires Lydia Brown, ex-Georgetown Law Institute for Tech Law and Policy, for Privacy & Data Project as policy counsel; and Cody Venzke, ex-FCC, and Hugh Grant-Chapman, from Center for Strategic and International Studies internship, for Student Privacy Project, respectively, as policy counsel and research and communications associate.