WASHINGTON A Trump administration political appointee previously worked at Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm that assisted Donald Trump s presidential campaign and is now being investigated for collecting private information from Facebook .
Kelly Rzendzian, a special assistant to the secretary at the Department of Commerce, worked at SCL Group in Alexandria, Virginia, from March 2016 through February 2017, according to her public financial disclosure report . SCL Group is the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, a firm that harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of millions accounts without their permission as part of its voter targeting efforts.
On her LinkedIn page, Rzendzian describes herself as a senior adviser at SCL Group. Her resume , obtained by the government watchdog American Oversight through a Freedom of Information Act request, says she worked at Cambridge Analytica starting in March 2016.