section_path: Career/White House assistant press secretary (2019–2021)
section_name: White House assistant press secretary (2019–2021)
paragraph_text: White House assistant press secretary (2019–2021)
  
  After graduating, Leavitt was offered a full-time job in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence responding to letters sent to the president; by June 2020, she was its associate director. That month, she was named as an assistant White House press secretary after a friend who worked in the Secret Service referred her to the press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. She attended a nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett in the White House Rose Garden, an event that later served as the beginning of the White House COVID-19 outbreak; Leavitt later tested positive for the virus. In January 2021, weeks before Donald Trump left office, she became the communications director for New York representative Elise Stefanik.
  
  After graduating, Leavitt was offered a full-time job in the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence responding to letters sent to the president; by June 2020, she was its associate director. That month, she was named as an assistant White House press secretary after a friend who worked in the Secret Service referred her to the press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. She attended a nomination ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett in the White House Rose Garden, an event that later served as the beginning of the White House COVID-19 outbreak; Leavitt later tested positive for the virus. In January 2021, weeks before Donald Trump left office, she became the communications director for New York representative Elise Stefanik.