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Lori Fresina, Senior Vice President and Director of M+R’s New England Office, joined M+R in 2006 to open a New England office and build upon her experience in advocacy training and coaching. Her Power Prism® model of advocacy training, campaign planning, assessment, and evaluation has become a popular platform for clients including the Susan G. Komen Advocacy Alliance, The College Board, Habitat for Humanity, and the American Heart Association. Lori was introduced to M+R while she was employed at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), where she served as the Northeast Regional Advocacy Director. Prior to joining CTFK, Lori served in a variety of advocacy leadership positions at the American Cancer Society where she lobbied and managed a number of cancer policy campaigns, including Smoke-Free New England. Lori has an expertise in community mobilization strategies, regional collaborations and training and communications for a political audience. The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Jaycees named Lori one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders of 2002.
Marjory Garrison, Senior Vice President, Business Development, leads teams of M+R staff from around the country in designing creative campaign and program plans for current and prospective M+R clients. An award-winning journalist by trade, Marjory brings extensive editorial expertise to the M+R team, most recently serving as the first City Editor of www.brooklynrail.org. Through in-depth research, integrated messaging and creative direction, Marjory has helped staff and board members of AARP, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Four Freedoms Fund, and others assess their issues, evaluate and refine their programs, and brand and market their campaigns. She has also worked with M+R clients to secure new funding from major foundation partners. Marjory received her Master’s degree in journalism from N.Y.U.
Leslie Kerns, Senior Vice President, Director of Communications, leads communications assessment, planning and implementation efforts for M+R clients including the T4America Campaign, GlobalGiving, Seva Foundation, Save Darfur Coalition, and the Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition. Leslie is an expert on strategic messaging and communications and has a reputation for helping nonprofits, funders and other mission-focused organizations connect with key audiences through targeted thought-leadership programs and high-level media coverage. A former attorney, Leslie leverages her public policy, analytical, and litigation skills to position, message and gain attention for mission-focused organizations. Leslie joined M+R after managing the Public Affairs Group at Solomon McCown & Company in Boston. Her experience also includes work with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Root Cause, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, CEOs for Cities, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and other community development, education, after school, and healthcare organizations.
Michael O'Loughlin, NYC Office Director, specializes in developing and executing integrated strategies for issue-advocacy campaigns. Michael is currently serving as lead campaign strategist and manager for the Campaign for New York’s Future, a broad coalition of city groups united around Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bold and visionary PlaNYC goals to make a cleaner, healthier and more livable New York. His work with other M+R clients includes managing NY-based grassroots strategy for the Save Darfur Coalition, mobilizing citizens to propose and pass New York’s Smoke-Free Workplace Act, and coordinating grassroots turnout for “Listening to the City,” the historic meeting that rewrote plans for rebuilding Lower Manhattan after 9/11. Michael has also organized campaign operations for New York City mayoral and New York State legislative campaigns. Prior to joining M+R, he managed a variety of organizing and advocacy projects with the New York Public Interest Research Group. He received his degree from Princeton University.
Darcy Scott Martin, Director of Government Affairs, has more than a decade of experience working with a wide range of issue-advocacy organizations and coalitions as a lobbyist, fundraiser, organizer, and board member. Today she evaluates and runs field campaigns and manages Lobby Day events and trainings for M+R clients including the American Diabetes Association, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and others. Darcy was introduced to the advocacy community through her work at the Stern Family Fund. She then went on to serve as the Washington, D.C. director of Women’s Action for New Directions, as well as director of the WAND PAC and the TrueMajorityAction.org PAC. Her evaluation experience includes analyzing the effectiveness and capacity of organizations to conduct online and offline field campaigns in all 50 states on issues ranging from corporate accountability to environmental activism. Darcy sits on the boards of PeacePAC and the Scoville Fellowship.
C.B. Pearson, Missoula Office Director, has been a public interest advocate for more than 25 years, specializing in grassroots organizing, media and issue advocacy, coalition building, civic skills training and nonprofit management. Pearson began his public interest career with the Colorado Public Interest Research Group. For two years, he worked as an organizer for Ralph Nader. Pearson was the first director of the Montana PIRG in 1982. In addition, he was the executive director and lobbyist for Montana Common Cause and the Clark Fork-Pend Orielle Coalition. He has managed six Montana initiative/referenda campaigns. Prior to joining M+R, he ran his own consulting firm, working with nonprofits.
Debra Rosen, Senior Vice President, Creative Services, helps plan and implement strategic issue-campaigns that integrate multimedia and engage the public, whether a bold ad campaign to attract young pro-choice voters that features retro imagery and chastity belts (seriously, just ask NARAL Pro-Choice America!) or a cross-marketing campaign like GetTheRealScoop.org. Debra’s most recent project for AARP – www.AARPVote08.org – was featured on CNN, Fox News and in PR News as one of the most innovative viral marketing strategies on behalf of a non-profit organization in the 2008 election. Debra works with M+R clients like AARP, the Divided We Fail Coalition, Election Protection Coalition, Human Rights Campaign, Common Cause, League of Conservation Voters, and many others. Prior to working for M+R, Debra worked for NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC, the Iowa Democratic Party, Progressive Majority, and as a field organizer on several campaigns in Northern California.
Allen Rosenfeld, Senior Vice President, brings two-decades of public policy experience to M+R on issues spanning from food and agriculture to telecommunications, trade, transportation, and environmental policy. He specializes in assessing, planning, and managing issue campaigns for nonprofits, foundations and coalitions. Allen also plans and executes media initiatives and conducts communications audits as well as targeted outreach to reporters and editorial boards. Allen is an expert on messaging and materials development, opposition research and rapid response strategy. As an economist, he specializes in analyzing the consumer and taxpayer impacts of federal policies. Allen received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1986 and resides in Northern California.
Jeff Rusnak, Cleveland Office Director, has consulted on more than 100 successful campaigns over the course of his career and has provided strategic guidance for nonprofits, corporations, foundations and candidates (including U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and Ted Strickland) on communications, ballot initiatives, organizational development, public affairs and marketing needs. Most recently, Jeff served as the lead consultant in the successful effort to secure a stable source of public funding for arts and cultural organizations in Cuyahoga County, OH. He also helped launch several independent expenditure organizations that have played a critical role in turning Ohio around. Recognized early on by Campaigns & Elections Magazine as a rising star in American politics, Jeff started out in various campaign posts for candidates at all levels of government. He is a board member of the National Jewish Democratic Council, The Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland, and the Ingenuity Festival.
Michael Ward, Senior Vice President, develops and implements innovative Internet strategies on behalf of major nonprofits. Prior to joining M+R, Michael worked as the Senior Consultant for TechRocks. During his time at TechRocks he provided strategic advice on public affairs campaigns for leading pro-choice and environmental organizations. In addition, he oversaw the development of a cutting-edge technology-planning tool available to nonprofit organizations via the web. In 1992 Michael helped pioneer the use of the Internet as an effective organizing tool at the Center for Study of Responsive Law by using online tools to successfully advocate for public access to government databases. Michael graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs.
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