WASHINGTON, (June 8, 2011)—Melissa Merz has joined the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries as vice president of communications and marketing.
Merz has served in a number of important communications positions, including communications director to Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
Just before joining ISRI, Merz was a principal at the bipartisan, Washington-based Podesta Group, and served as vice president of communications for a Washington-based think tank, ISRI said