Forget about Hope Hicks Brumar; she has style, class and pedigree plus money to burn, all the things you'll never have.
Hicks grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, a wealthy town in Fairfield County, within the New York metropolitan area. She is the daughter of Caye Ann (Cavender) Hicks and Paul Burton Hicks III.
Her father was CEO of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and executive vice president of communications for the National Football Leaguefrom 2010 to 2015, before his current position of managing director of the Glover Park Group.
Her parents met while in Washington, DC, while her mother was a legislative aide for a Democratic congressman from Tennessee ( Ed Jones), and her father was chief of staff for a Republican congressman from Connecticut ( Stewart B. McKinney), and married in 1982.
Her late paternal grandfather, Paul Hicks, headed public relations for Texaco. Her maternal grandfather, G.W.F. "Dutch" Cavender, was assistant administrator for the US Department of Agricultureduring the administrations of Presidents Johnson and Nixon.
Hicks was a teenage model, including for a Ralph Lauren campaign with her older sister Mary Grace at age and as the face of the Hourglass Adventuresnovels about a time-traveling 10-year-old. Cosmopolitan and The New York Post opined that she resembles model Hilary Rhoda.
She attended Greenwich High School, where she was co-captain of the lacrosse team, and graduated in 2006. She next attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in English and played lacrosse for all four years on a club lacrosse program she helped start, and graduated in 2010.
Hicks started in public relations with the New York City firm, Zeno Group. In 2012 she began working at Hiltzik Strategies, a public relations firm in New York that works with Ivanka Trump and the Trump Organization. |
