Dec 2015 Top Management Night – Speaker Stephanie Salmon

Washington Outlook: Key Issues Facing the Metalcasting Industry

US metalcasters are facing a wave of new regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and National Labor Relations Board. Hear about the key legislative and regulatory issues that AFS has been actively engaged in 2015 and what the industry can expect in 2016.

Stephanie Salmon is President of Potomac Government Relations, a public affairs firm located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. She has over twenty-five years of government relations experience and works with clients to represent their policy priorities before the Congress, the Executive Branch and regulatory bodies in such issue areas such as workplace safety matters, energy, environment, tax, appropriations and trade. She has worked for the American Foundry Society for nearly twenty years and currently serves as the Vice President of Government Affairs.

In this role, she serves as the association’s advocate before Congress, a myriad of regulatory agencies, and a broad range of coalitions. In addition, she drafts legislative testimony, develops regulatory comments, issues action alerts and updates, as well as crafting educational pieces on issues affecting the metalcasting industry. She serves on the AFS Safety and Health Committee, as well as the liaison to the Government Affairs Committee.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies, with a concentration in economics and business from the American University in Washington, D.C. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Ms. Salmon resides in Arlington, VA with her husband and three children.