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CBC staffer moves off the Hill to private sector

Posted by Jenna Ebersole on March 26, 2015

The director of external affairs for the Congressional Black Caucus has taken a job with the same title in the private sector.

Kwame Canty switched this month to the Edison Electric Institute, an electric company association, after more than eight years on the Hill in several offices. He was the only CBC staffer in the 113th Congress who continued into the 114th.

Canty, who started with the CBC in early 2014, has also held positions with Rep. Ed Towns (D-N.Y.), the Clerk of the House and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He was legislative assistant for Towns from 2011 to 2013 before taking a job with the CBC.

The Brooklyn, New York native graduated with a bachelor's from Hampton University in 2003. His new employer registers to lobby on a range of energy issues.