AHLA Bolsters Federal and Government Affairs Teams

WASHINGTON– The American Hotel & & Lodging Association (AHLA) revealed 2 brand-new personnel additions that will even more broaden the company’s federal government affairs and advocacy abilities.

Kat Fonda has actually been called AHLA’s director of federal affairs. In this brand-new function, she will be accountable for policy advancement and advocacy prior to Congress and other federal government firms.

Fonda signs up with AHLA from Fundraising Inc., where she acted as a fundraising specialist to numerous lots members of Congress, consisting of several committee chairmen and U.S. senators, offering counsel to members and senior congressional personnel. Prior to Fundraising Inc., Fonda invested a number of years at Aflac, where she helped with policy advancement on Capitol Hill and acted as an agent of the business prior to members of Congress.

AHLA likewise revealed that Shreya Kanal has actually been called supervisor of federal government affairs. In this function, Kanal will deal with the association’s federal affairs group to advance the hotel and accommodations market’s program on Capitol Hill. She signs up with AHLA from Associated Builders and Contractors, where she acted as the organizer of legal and political affairs. She is a graduate of Christopher Newport University.

Fonda and Kanal sign up with a growing AHLA federal government affairs group, which is preparing for extra development and has actually contributed on behalf of the hotel market, specifically given that the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last 2 years, AHLA has actually grown from 44 to almost 70 staff members.

” AHLA’s federal government affairs efforts are everything about getting advocacy outcomes for America’s hoteliers, and Kat and Shreya are going to assist us continue to do simply that,” stated AHLA Executive Vice President of Federal Affairs and Policy Chirag Shah. “These important additions to our growing group will allow us to much better engage policymakers and accomplish a lot more policy wins for hoteliers across the country.”