v GRETCHEN K. WRIGHT

Biography

Gretchen Wright is the vice president and a principal of PR Solutions, a public relations consulting firm that serves national advocacy groups, associations, foundations and think tanks working on progressive issues and public education.

In her current position, Wright works with a variety of organizations developing media strategy, planning and promoting press conferences and briefings, writing media materials, pitching stories to the media, and conducting media training workshops. She has worked with colleges and universities through the Ford Foundation's Campus Diversity Initiative to help publicize their diversity programs and initiatives. She manages projects for the Association of Women's Health and Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, Drug Strategies (a public policy institute), the Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free and Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW). Wright also works extensively with the Afterschool Alliance and the National Partnership for Women & Families (formerly the Women's Legal Defense Fund). Wright organized media outreach for the AFL-CIO's 1996 Union Summer effort, and designed and publicized the AFL-CIO's Working Women's Department's 1997 Working Women Working Together campaign.

In addition to media strategy and outreach, Wright assists clients with the design and production of publications, posters and promotional materials.

Prior to joining PR Solutions in 1993, she was the publications editor and deputy press secretary at the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL). In that capacity, Wright assisted with media outreach for NARAL's national and grassroots organizing campaigns. She supervised the organization's paid media campaigns, which included local, regional and national television, radio and print advertising. Wright also produced the quarterly NARAL News, a membership newsletter and coordinated the design and production of all NARAL publications. Wright has also worked at Planned Parenthood of Mid-Michigan and was a Field Manager for the public interest canvassing organization, Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM).

She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from the University of Michigan and was a 1989 Coro Fellow in their Women In Leadership Program in Washington, D.C.