White House's Narda Jones Expected to Become Rosenworcel's Chief of Staff

Multiple industry officials told us they expect current White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Legislative Affairs Director Narda Jones to soon be named FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s chief of staff, and for her to be joined on staff by Priscilla Argeris, who left Rosenworcel’s staff in 2015 to eventually join then-Facebook. The announcements are expected soon, possibly at the start of April. Longtime Rosenworcel staffer Travis Litman has been her acting chief of staff since she became chairwoman. Jones worked for 10 years in the FCC’s Wireline and International bureaus before joining the staff of Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., in 2014 and eventually serving as senior technology policy adviser and counsel for the Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Transportation and Science. Jones joined the White House in 2021. Numerous industry officials agreed that, in the words of one, Jones as chief of staff would “make a lot of sense,” and they pointed to the fact that both she and Rosenworcel worked for Senate Commerce. Argeris was a senior legal adviser to Rosenworcel when the chairwoman was still a commissioner. In a 2015 news release announcing her departure, Rosenworcel called Argeris “a trusted advisor who has been by my side since the very earliest days in my office” and a “fantastic public servant, policy whiz, and eagle-eyed lawyer.” Jones, Argeris, the White House and the FCC didn’t comment.