About Us

PLACE is a strategic communications, advocacy and public affairs agency that provides real-time insights, mobilizes decision-makers, and drives positive change for our clients. Our name underscores our practice of strategically positioning our clients where stakeholders, donors and members live and work. With 30 years of experience and a highly dynamic partner roster spanning event, field, digital, and campaign teams in every market, we are a nimble small business that delivers like a big agency, solving problems and creating opportunities on projects of any size. 


About Sam Myers, CEO

  • 25-year veteran of government, public affairs, campaigns, and community engagement all across the U.S.
  • Biden, Obama, Kerry, Gore, and Clinton alum.
  • Nationally recognized field campaign and thought-leadership events producer.
  • Executive roles in multiple national public affairs agencies, including as President of Burson’s Direct Impact.
  • Presidential advance veteran
  • Raised in rural Missouri and currently living outside of Washington, D.C.


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