Tania Mercado

Senior Manager, Communications, Intuit

Bilingual communication specialist working with litigation clients, corporations, foundations, non-profit organizations, and high-profile individuals in politics, tech, media, and entertainment.

Expertise includes crisis communications, rapid-response messaging, targeted media outreach, risk assessment, and reputation management for clients considering rebranding, expanding, or elevating their profiles.

Previously managed media relations for the California Department of Justice, serving in the communications office of now-Vice President Kamala Harris and now-U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra.

As Press Secretary for California Attorney General Becerra, served as a primary spokesperson on key immigration cases involving DACA, family separation policies, and conditions in immigration detention centers. Portfolio also included criminal justice and law enforcement matters like racial profiling and implicit bias, hate crimes, police transparency, officer-involved shootings, and more.

Experience managing media relations on environment and sustainability, democracy, voting, corporate communications, retail, and civil rights matters including sexual assault, women’s reproductive rights, labor rights, multicultural affairs (specializing in Latino and Native American relations) and LGBTQ issues such as workplace discrimination, and same-sex marriage.

Named one of 16 rising stars inside top PR agencies around the country by Business Insider.