New Haven—The DeStefano for Governor campaign announced Monday that Derek Slap will be leaving his post at the City of New Haven for a new position as Communications Director for DeStefano’s gubernatorial campaign.

"I look forward to working with Mayor DeStefano to communicate his vision for making Connecticut a better place to live. This is an incredible opportunity to help move our state forward. As a former journalist, what I loved most was talking with people - not at them - about issues that affect their lives. For the next 9 months the DeStefano campaign will engage in a substantive conversation with Connecticut's families and I am honored to be a part of that,” Slap said.

“Derek has served the city of New Haven well and I am thrilled that one of our state’s most talented communications minds is joining my campaign team. He has seen firsthand what we have achieved in New Haven by working together, and I am glad wants to help us do even more for the state as a whole,” DeStefano said.

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Slap has worked in journalism in Connecticut for nine and a half years. He has worked as the City of New Haven’s Public Information Officer and Press Secretary to DeStefano since June, 2004. Before that, Slap spent seven and half years as a news anchor and reporter at News Channel 30 in Hartford. He has also worked as a reporter and news anchor for NBC in Tallahassee, Florida and at CNN Headline News. Slap graduated from the Newhouse School of Communication at Syracuse University in 1995 with a B.A. in International Relations and a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism. He is 32 years old and a resident of Hamden, CT.