Director, Communications & Policy

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Ryan Hohman, MPA, JD, serves as the Director of Communications & Policy for Friends of Cancer Research (Friends); a Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the nation's progress toward prevention and treatment of cancer by mobilizing public support for cancer research funding and providing education on key public policy issues.

Before joining Friends, Mr. Hohman was Director of Corporate and Institutional Partnerships at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center where he also represented the center on the board of the Cancer Research Alliance. Prior to that Mr. Hohman was an associate with a Washington DC-based corporate public relations firm, specializing in health and trade association media and governmental strategy. Mr. Hohman has also served on numerous political campaigns including; former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's 2004 Senate race and Senator John Edwards' Presidential Campaign, as well as working for the Democratic National Committee under Chairman Terry McAuliffe.

Mr. Hohman received his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center, a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Bachelors (summa cum laude) in Political Science from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.