Molly Weedn

Principal

Molly is an experienced communications and public affairs professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to her time at Axiom Advisors, Molly served as the Americas News Lead at Airbnb. While at Airbnb, Molly worked across the policy, legal, marketing and data teams to lead multi-faceted campaigns that drove coverage of the company’s work on policy, consumer and corporate communications initiatives. In her time at Airbnb, Molly worked with teams to pass model legislation legalizing short-term rentals in cities large and small, while also successfully overturning legislation through the local ballot referendum process.

Before joining the policy and communications team at Airbnb, Molly  served as Vice President of Public Affairs at the California Medical Association where she developed and executed strategic communication plans for high profile legislative battles, public health initiatives and ballot measure campaigns.

Molly spent several years at the Dewey Square Group, where she worked on political advocacy campaigns across California, Alaska and Florida. She served as Deputy Campaign Manager on three statewide ballot measures, as Deputy Communications Director on another three statewide ballot measures and as a campaign coordinator during the 2005 California Special Election.

Molly attended the University of California, Santa Cruz where she earned a degree in political science and went on to George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.

Molly lives in San Francisco with her husband, son and wildly entertaining dog.