Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Kassy Perry

84. Kassy Perry

Kassy Perry has long been one of the Capitol community’s premier public affairs pros. A veteran of both the Executive and Legislative branches, she has advised governors, Fortune 500 CEOs, lawmakers and any number of nonprofit leaders. While Perry Communications Group deftly works on a variety of policy issues, PCG’s forte has long been in the health care space, where it excels at developing public affairs campaigns and partnerships that help get their clients to where they are trying to go. This last year has seen them elbows deep in legislative measures around pharmacy benefit managers, the 340B program, scope of practice issues and the launch of the state’s first homeless hospice, to name just a few. Perry prefers to work deep in the background, but had a big splashy moment a few years ago when she convinced Katie Couric to televise her colonoscopy on the Today Show. If getting a major celebrity to publicly show herself getting a tube up the bum isn’t influence, we don’t know what is. Full disclosure: Perry is on the board of Open California, which produces Capitol Weekly.

Updated August 26, 2025