SKDKnickerbocker
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| Private | |
| Industry | Public affairs, political consulting |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Founder | Bob Squier William Knapp |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC New York, New York Albany, New York Los Angeles |
| Website | skdknick.com |
SKDKnickerbocker is a progressive public affairs and political consulting firm that specializes in working for Democratic Party politicians. It has offices in Washington, DC, New York City, Los Angeles, CA, and Albany, New York. The firm employs notable figures like former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, Bill Burton, and Hilary Rosen.
The firm was formed in 2004 through the merger of Squier Knapp Dunn Communications and Knickerbocker Consulting. They formalized the merger in 2010, taking the name SKDKnickerbocker.
SKDK's political clients have included Barack Obama, Andrew Cuomo, Michael Bloomberg, and Christine Quinn. The firm was reportedly hired by women's rights and birth control advocate Sandra Fluke.
The firm's current and former public affairs clients include the Rockefeller Foundation, AT&T, Facebook, Girls Who Code, NoVo Foundation, the Human Rights Campaign, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the New American Leaders Project, and the Obama Presidential Library.
In October 2015, the firm was acquired by The Stagwell Group, of which Mark Penn is the principal, for an estimated $75 million.
SKDKnickerbocker provides political consulting services to political candidates, campaigns, and issue advocacy groups. SKDKnickerbocker describes itself as a full-service public affairs practice that offers crisis communications, branding, marketing, media training, digital/social media advice, speech writing, and message development.
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