{"id":2657,"date":"2018-06-07T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:17","slug":"drigola-to-head-advocacy-at-impact-public-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2018\/drigola-to-head-advocacy-at-impact-public-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Drigola to Head Advocacy at Impact Public Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Drigola to Head Advocacy at Impact Public Affairs\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Alla-Drigola-cropped-240x271.jpg\" alt=\"Alla Drigola\" class=\"wp-image-2664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Alla-Drigola-cropped-240x271.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Alla-Drigola-cropped-160x180.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Alla-Drigola-cropped-768x866.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Alla-Drigola-cropped-400x451.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Alla-Drigola-cropped-360x406.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/Alla-Drigola-cropped.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alla Drigola, MPM\/15, has been appointed Director of Advocacy and Digital Engagement at Impact Public Affairs, where she will be working with clients to advance their issues with Canada\u2019s decision makers on Parliament Hill and in the digital space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating from the MPM program, Drigola was part of the digital communications team at the Conservative Party of Canada leading up to the 2015 federal election. From 2015 to 2018, Drigola worked for former Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts in various capacities: as communications manager on her 2015 federal election campaign, as her legislative and communications assistant in her Parliament Hill office, and most recently as her Executive Assistant on her BC Liberal Leadership campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drigola credits much of her success to the MPM program. &#8220;The program helped me build a strong foundation in the intricacies of Parliament Hill and the nuances in executing successful public affairs work,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The wealth of information and experience that instructors and fellow students bring to the program meant I was able to hit the ground running upon graduation \u2013 and the program\u2019s alumni are an invaluable resource to all past, present and future students.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alla Drigola, MPM\/15, has been appointed Director of Advocacy and Digital Engagement at Impact Public Affairs, where she will be working with clients to advance their issues with Canada\u2019s decision makers on Parliament Hill and in the digital space. After graduating from the MPM program, Drigola was part of the digital communications team at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}