Advertisement Kamala Harris campaign hires longtime Hassan staffer Meredith Shevitz as NH political director Experienced staffer, political operative signs on ahead of presidential candidate’s upcoming visit to NH

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Sen. Kamala Harris now has a second staffer in New Hampshire as she prepares to make her first visit as a presidential candidate.WMUR has learned that Meredith Shevitz is leaving a senior post in the office of U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan to become New Hampshire political director for the Harris campaign. Shevitz will join state campaign director Craig Brown, whose role with the Harris was reported by WMUR in January."Sen. Harris is running a campaign of, by, and for the people, and her message of making lives better for all Granite Staters will resonate here," Shevitz said. "From taking on the opioid crisis to standing up for our democratic values to pushing one of the largest middle-class tax cuts in history, I am excited to join this campaign and help Sen. Harris build a formidable operation in the first-in-the-nation primary."Harris, who announced her candidacy for president on Jan. 20, will make her first visit to New Hampshire on Monday and Tuesday of next week. The California senator will hold a town hall event at the South Church in Portsmouth at 4 p.m. on Monday and will appear at a Politics and Eggs breakfast at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Shevitz had most recently been Senior Assistant for Policy and Projects in Hassan’s Senate office since Hassan took office in January 2017. She was formerly deputy political director for Hassan’s U.S. Senate campaign and previously served as the deputy political director for the New Hampshire Democratic Party.Shevitz was the event coordinator for Hassan’s 2014 gubernatorial inaugural committee after serving as deputy political director Hassan's gubernatorial re-election campaign.Earlier in her career, Shevitz interned with the anti-gun violence group Mayor Against Illegal Guns, a New York-based professional fundraising firm and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. She also worked in New Hampshire as a field organizer for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012.