PR Women Who Changed History: Using Public Relations for the Public Good
Extraordinary women applied the craft of public relations to change the course of U.S. history—in civil rights, women’s rights, and economic equality. Get to know their stories, and a few of the first women to open their own PR agencies and run corporate PR departments years before women were considered for jobs traditionally held by men, when the vast majority of women in PR were secretaries. Original program from March 11, 2021.
EMCEE & MODERATOR Charmion Kinder, Global Head of PR, Global Citizen, and former press aide for Michelle Obama, discusses her work using PR to help promote global responsibility, sustainability, equality, and poverty eradication for the purposes of building a better world.
Grace Leong, CEO and Partner, Hunter:, Leong moderates a discussion with Fox and Hunter on what life was like in the Mad Men days of PR.
Muriel Fox, Co-Founder, National Organization for Women (NOW); first woman to join a major agency (Carl Byoir & Associates, 1949) as a professional
Barbara Hunter, founder of Hunter PR in 1967, the first woman to buy a major agency (Dudley Anderson Yutzy). In 1989 Barbara Hunter founded Hunter PR, which she headed until 2000.
Dr. Karen Miller Russell, associate professor, Grady College, University of Georgia, with an introspective on one of the first women in corporate public relations, Gertrude Bailey
Dr. LaShonda Eaddy, assistant professor, Southern Methodist University, joins Karen with new research on Bailey's work at Monsanto and her co-founding of the Women Executives in PR (WEPR)
Dr. Donnalyn Pompper, professor, University of Oregon, explores the first women to use public relations to build Oregon’s first settlements and foster mutually beneficial relations with its Native American population
Dena Merriam, Co-Founding Partner, Finn Partners
Fatoumata "Fatou" B. Barry, Creatrix, PR Girl Manifesto + AB Media Group will conduct the Q&A
Thanks to our Sponsors
Sponsored in part by: The Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication; Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia; Talkwalker; Page; RacePoint Global; Elon University; Hunter:; Ragan Communications; Germinder+Associates; PR Council; Finn Partners; Omnicom Group: CommPRO; Women In PR–North America; and Muck Rack.
