Margaret Anne Moore Class of 2008
T
o any recent college grad, moving to Washington D.C.
but breaking news.” Her day continues in that fashion, with one
without a job lined up would be a daunting adventure,
unexpected alert at a time. She monitors the ebb and flow of the
but not to Class of 2008’s Margaret Anne Moore. In
news-cycle to draft relative statements, track trending topics, and
the summer of 2012 she moved to D.C. with a pol-
mold effective releases on committee activities. “Every day is a
ished resumé and hopes that one of her many informational
perpetual battle of tug-of-war between making news and react-
interviews would give her some direction and maybe even get her
ing to news.” One of her favorite projects that she has worked on
foot into the door somewhere. Soon after her arrival to the city,
while in D.C. was last summer when “more than 50,000 unaccom-
she began an unpaid internship with the Congressional Office of
panied minors crossed into the United States from Mexico” and
Congressman Michael McCaul from Texas and started her ascent,
her committee sprang into action to help during the crisis. She
learning quickly on her feet in order to keep up on The Hill. By
assisted in the messaging of the Committee’s human trafficking
November 2012, she was hired as a Staff Assistant and Legislative
and border security initiative, communicating the importance of
Correspondent in McCaul’s office. As the Congressman acquired
the issue to the public. “During this time, I realized that my role as
the gavel for the House Committee on Homeland Security, she
a communicator is giving the voiceless a voice.”
continued to advance as well and was offered a position as Special
As a 13-year Ensworth student, Margaret Anne heard the Mis-
Assistant to The Chief of Staff. When embarking on her new job Margaret Anne had no idea where it was going to take her, but she was ready and willing to do whatever she could to be a valuable member of the team.
sion Statement read a countless number of times during school assemblies, and those words have stuck with her far beyond the time she spent in the halls of Ensworth. “My intellectual curiosity has helped me adapt to a variety of environments, taught me
Her first day on the job, April 1, 2013, she was placed at a spare
to listen to others even when their beliefs differ from mine, and
computer without a desk and “naturally, I thought it was a big
has served me well in a digital age where information develops
April Fools joke.” While desk squatting, she found every excuse to
and news breaks within seconds.” Beginning this fall, she will be
help anywhere she could, but she quickly became interested in the
working toward her Masters in Corporate Communications and
constant flow of information found in the daily lives of the press
Public Relations at Georgetown University, while continuing in her
team. “They worked with such a wide variety of topics, and this
current position on The Hill.
combination seemed to ignite a passion I never knew was there.” Soon after, she found herself splitting time between Special Assistant and Press Assistant. With the constant desire and determination to continue to advance and improve, Margaret Anne is now Deputy Press Secretary for the Committee. The typical day begins when “my phone buzzes off my nightstand at 5:00 am, jolting me awake. I reach for snooze; it’s not my alarm, 72 | ENSWORTH ENSIGHTS