Alyssa Farah Griffin

Alyssa Alexandra Farah (born June 15, 1989) is an American political advisor who was White House Director of Strategic Communications and Assistant to the President in the Trump administration in 2020. In 2021, Farah joined CNN as a political commentator in December 2021. Farah previously served as Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Media Affairs and the Press Secretary for the US Department of Defense from 2019 to 2020. Farah was press secretary for Vice President Mike Pence and Special Assistant to President Donald Trump from October 2017 to September 2019. In 2010, Farah was a media intern for Congressman Tom McClintock and began a one-year position as an associate producer on The Laura Ingraham Show. In the 2012 Presidential Cycle, Farah was the spokesperson for the College Republican National Committee, traveling the country discussing the youth vote. Prior to 2014, Farah wrote articles for the far-right conspiracy website WorldNetDaily, where she served as a "special Washington correspondent for WND." In 2014, she was named Press Secretary for Congressman Mark Meadows; she was later named as his Communications Director. She went on to work as the Communications Director for the Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving under Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows, She became engaged to Justin Griffin, a student at the New York University Stern School of Business and the grandson of Samuel A. Tamposi - a prominent real estate developer and Republican Party activist. They were married November 2021 After graduating from Bella Vista High School in 2007, Farah earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Public Policy from Patrick Henry College.