The Blue Highway Beacon: Vol. III, NO. 3

Blue Highway in the Wild

With contributions from Blue Highway Advisory’s Rob Legare, Emily Danzinger and Andy Och, as well as Blue Highway Global’s Malcolm Taylor.

With growth comes travel, and as we expand our own corporate footprint in tandem with our client roster, we’re buying up more airplane seats, and sending people farther afield than ever before. The last month in particular has seen BHA and BHG senior operatives quite literally spending inordinate amounts of time on trains, planes and in their own automobiles to get to where clients, current and prospective alike, need us to be. Below is just a representative sample of our physical reach, from April and May to the first week of June.

We are grateful those who hosted, trusted, and engaged with us along the way, and look further to more collaborative work across the U.S. and the globe.

Ian Christopher McCaleb, Founder / Principal, Blue Highway Advisory and Blue Highway Global

Blue Highway Sticks Flag in the Ground in Boston, Has Eyes for all of N.E.

As Blue Highway concentrates on its New England expansion, we were fortunate to be invited to join elite members of Boston's defense bar at the Boston Bar Association's annual White Collar Crime Conference, a meeting of the minds for the area's top partners.

Rob Legare, our Senior Litigation Communications Advisor based in the city, represented BHA at the event, learning about the various firms in attendance and introducing their partners to our multiple award-wining litigation and crisis communications work, as well as our differentiating ‘people-first’ philosophy. The philosophy matters, and those we met understood why.

Boston is unsurprisingly proving to be a fertile and enjoyable geography for our expansion. Blue Highway Founder Ian McCaleb and SVP for Crisis Communications Maria Stagliano shipped up to ‘the Hub’ to spend the last week of May with Rob, meeting with current and potential clients and pitching anew to law firm partners and assembled practice teams alike. Throughout the week, we were fortunate to engage meaningfully with clients and their legal teams, to learn from them, and creatively work together to grow our footprint in the city.

The in-person team bonding was an absolute plus.

As we grow, we aim to become the premiere litigation, crisis and strategic communications firm in Boston, as well as in Providence, Concord, Montpelier and Augusta. As law firms across the region grow and take on more impactful work with international impact, we’re staged to address their most complex client problems with creativity and depth.

"Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again – Bon Accord:” Aberdeen, Scotland

Blue Highway attended the Offshore UK Security and Resilience conference in Aberdeen, Scotland’s granite city and a place once described by Glaswegian comedian Billy Connolly as a “Fresh Air Fortnight” (compared to the industrial setting of Glasgow, one assumes).

Aberdeen clings to the Scottish coastline, and has been a legendary Klondike of the Seas since the 1970s, when oil was first pumped ashore. Today, oil and gas remain key to the region, and now have been joined by wind, wave and offshore solar production in ever-increasing capacity.

And thus, Aberdeen is internationally recognized as the energy capital of the UK.

We were at the conference with InfraShield, a valued Blue Highway client who is the leading ‘OT’ Cyber business in the critical infrastructure industry.

InfraShield protects an impressive 70 percent of U.S. nuclear sites from cyber-attacks, data loss, nation-state intrusions and more dangers. The company is growing fast, and has engaged Blue Highway’s help to grow further, broaden its reach, and enter new markets abroad. The UK and Europe are prime targets, and attending this conference sent a strong signal that InfraShield is on the march.

The conference provided an insight into the threats faced by the offshore industry, including cyber-attacks and cyber terrorism. It was clear that as an industry, the physical safety of staff and infrastructure is key. Working in the North Sea is hard and dangerous enough, and safety protocols are well practiced to the point of being second nature. Likewise, it was clear that the industry is making great strides in absorbing cyber security too, but does still have further to go.

In Aberdeen, the company was able to fully showcase its products and services, with this conference providing an opportunity to grow further into the larger UK and overseas market.

We will almost certainly be back in Aberdeen very soon, and will be very happy to meet again, just as Aberdeen’s town slogan celebrates.

Malcolm in the Desert, Harlem, NYC

In May, Blue Highway’s Mikki Tzamtzis trekked all the way from her operating base in Cape Town, South Africa, and Blue Highway’s Emily Danzinger flew from Miami to New York City, as Blue Highway worked alongside Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz , the daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz, to help mark the release of her newest book, “Malcolm in the Desert: Wisdom from the Spiritual Transformation of Malcolm X.”

Together with Blue Highway Business Manager Noieeda McCaleb, the team led strategic publicity and outreach efforts ahead of the launch, helping secure Dr. Shabazz appearances across several of America’s most respected platforms, including The Clay Cane Show on SiriusXM Urban View, Tamira Chapman’s Storehouse and Friends podcast, which has previously featured former First Lady Michelle Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris, and The Dean Obeidallah Show on SiriusXM Progress.

Mikki and Emily also helped host two landmark launch events at The Shabazz Center in Harlem, New York. The first, held on May 18, featured an intimate fireside conversation between Dr. Shabazz and The View co-host Sunny Hostin. The second event marked the official celebration of Malcolm X’s 101st birthday, coinciding with the release of the book itself.

Across both events, the team had the privilege of connecting with an extraordinary group of voices and advocates committed to racial equality and social progress, including Dr. Mahmood Mamdani, composer Christopher Davis, and former NBA player and Actively Black founder Lanny Smith.

The experience reflected not only the cultural significance of Dr. Shabazz’s work, but also Blue Highway Advisory’s continued commitment to meaningful storytelling, effectively targeted strategic communications, and conversations devised to create lasting impact by building bridges and expanding cultural outreach.

A Front Seat to Transformative Media History – The Ridenhour Award Program at the National Press Club, Washington, DC

Blue Highway Advisory Founder and Principal Ian Christopher McCaleb and Senior Vice President of Marketing and Client Relations Andy Och had the privilege of attending the 21st Annual Ridenhour Prizes awards dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on Thursday April 30th in the company of our client and Ridenhour Prizes co-founder, Randy Fertel.

The awards dinner was established more than two decades ago to preserve and celebrate the memory of investigative journalist and whistleblower Ron Ridenhour (d. May 10, 1998), who bravely brought global attention to the Vietnam War “My Lai Massacre” in March, 1968. Through its 21-year history, the awards series has feted dozens of investigative journalists, whistleblowers and fearless champions of the First Amendment.

Erez Reuveni, former Acting Deputy Director of the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation, took home the 2026 Ridenhour Truth-Teller Award for refusing to follow orders to mislead Federal judges.

Former CBS “60 Minutes” Executive Producer Bill Owens co-received the 2026 Ridenhour Courage Award for his leadership and decisions made in an effort to always report the facts and pass staunch, stalwart journalistic ethics on to his staff and reporters.

But, it was now-former “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi who gathered the most sustained coverage and attention during her own fierce co-acceptance speech for the Ridenhour Courage Award, describing her experience with CBS News’ new management team, who, she said, demanded she alter a completed show segment based on “corporate meddling and editorial fear.” It was Alfonsi’s awards speech on that night that re-trained national attention on the inner-workings of CBS News under the new network’s new leadership – and that story has only taken on more of a life of its own in the following weeks.