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For Immediate Release
COMMISSIONER JESSICA ROSENWORCEL ANNOUNCES STAFF
WASHINGTON, October 4, 2017—Today, Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel 
announced the appointment of Travis Litman as Chief of Staff and Senior Legal Advisor, 
with primary responsibility for wireline and public safety issues.  She also announced the 
appointment of Kate Black as Policy Advisor, with primary responsibility for media 
issues.  In addition, she announced that Lashion Pratt will join the office as a Staff 
Assistant.
Commissioner Rosenworcel said: “I am thrilled that Travis is returning to my 
office and excited to have Kate bring her expertise to the Commission.  Travis and Kate 
have a broad range of public and private sector experience.  I know they will provide 
exceptional counsel to my office and dynamic support for the work of the Commission. I 
also am delighted to welcome Lashion to the office and look forward to working closely 
with her.”
Travis Litman is a Commission veteran, who returns to the office after previously 
serving as Commissioner Rosenworcel’s Senior Legal Advisor for wireline and consumer 
issues.  Travis has held a variety of roles in the agency’s Wireline Competition Bureau, 
including most recently as Assistant Chief of the Telecommunications Access Policy 
Division.  He also has served as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Commerce, 
Science, and Transportation, where he provided assistance to the Subcommittee on 
Communications, Technology, and the Internet.  Before entering public service, Travis 
practiced communications law at Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP and Davis Wright 
Tremaine, LLP.  He is a graduate of Lewis & Clark College and the University of 
Colorado School of Law.
Kate Black joins the office from EMILY’s List, where she most recently served as 
Chief of Staff.  In this role she was responsible for strategic support for President 
Stephanie Schriock and for helping to implement and manage EMILY’s List goals and 
initiatives.  Most recently, this included managing the Run to Win program, which was 
created to recruit, train, and elect as many as 18,000 women to public office.  Previously, 
Kate served as the Vice President of Research for EMILY’s List, where she was 
responsible for regulatory and legislative policies regarding key issues facing American 
families and the economy.  While in this role, she also served as Executive Director of 
American Women, where she led the organization’s polling, messaging, and policy 
development, with a special focus on media consumption and the impact of new 
technologies on the economy.  Kate has held a variety of other policy and research 
positions at a diverse group of organizations, including the Democratic National 
Committee, the Service Employees International Union, and Hillary Clinton for 
President.  She is the co-author, with June Diane Raphael, of “Represent: The Badass 
Woman’s Guide to Running for Office and Changing the World,” scheduled to be 
published by Workman Publishing in 2019.  She is a graduate of Miami University and 
holds a Master of Arts from George Washington University.  
Lashion Pratt joins the office from the Office of Managing Director after starting
with the Commission as a Staff Assistant in the former Chairman’s office in 2016.  
Before joining the agency, she held a variety of Executive Assistant roles at the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Department of Veterans Affairs, and 
Environmental Protection Agency.  
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Office of Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel
Twitter: @JRosenworcel
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes 
official action.  See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).