Cogent Strategies (Cogent) is a certified woman-owned small business which was established in December 2017 by veteran public affairs CEO Kimberley Fritts and a team of senior strategists. Cogent is a bipartisan team of top-ranked government relations, strategic communications and digital advocacy professionals with decades of combined experience running winning public policy campaigns for a broad cross-section of clients including Fortune 500 companies, global corporations, non-profits and trade associations on issues ranging from energy to banking, health care to defense, telecommunications to foreign relations. Cogent prides itself in being a boutique firm that works collaboratively to turn over every stone for its clients – leveraging smart storytelling, third-party validators, digital insights and relationships with key policymakers and administration officials to advance a message and issue. On behalf of its clients, Cogent crafts and executes fully-integrated efforts backed by: - Best-in-class policy and political smarts with deep reach into those members of Congress who serve on key committees of jurisdiction, congressional caucuses and coalitions, administration officials, governors and other influential stakeholders including think tanks on the far left and the far right who can make or break an issue; - Game-changing data and digital analytics tools that are adapted to suit individual client needs, and provide invaluable insights into the conversations, messages and influencers shaping issues and driving high-level government and private decision-making; - Experience in and around the highest levels of regional, national and global media as well as cutting-edge blogs; - Reach to powerful, credible, third-party voices that can validate client agendas; and - High-impact written content that turns supporters into champions, influencers into advocates, targets into communities, and voices into conversation.