Name: Kate Pardo
Title: Advisory Senior Consultant
Agency/Company: Deloitte & Touche
DOD translator. Pardo manages the strategic communications portfolio for the Defense Department’s CIO, which includes supporting senior leaders with media interactions, speaking engagements, the public website, strategic communications activities and widely attended gatherings. Last year, she helped drive a project to connect IT leaders from across the government with industry executives in Silicon Valley. She also worked on a team that cut through the jargon to better explain DOD’s cybersecurity initiatives to the public and is now training others to implement new communications processes in areas such as cybersecurity and the electromagnetic spectrum.