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Alexa Fox joined Monument Advocacy as vice president on the food and agriculture team. Audra Weeks, who was deputy chief of staff for policy at the Agriculture Department, departed USDA. Barbara O’Brien, president and CEO of Dairy Management Inc., announced that she will retire this fall. Caroline Rydell is leaving the Farm Credit Bank of Texas to begin a role with Texas A&M AgriLife Office of Federal Relations. 

USDA named Alec Varsamis deputy communications director. A veteran of the first Trump administration, he was press secretary and acting communications director for then-Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue. Since then, Versamis has worked at agencies Ketchum and Veno Group in account supervisor roles focused on agriculture, food and ingredients as well as crisis and issue management communications. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco.