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Maggie Brown
Maggie Brown, senior vice president and managing director of APCO Worldwide’s Seattle office, offers a background that combines a decade of experience as a professional journalist with nearly 25 years as a public affairs, communication and media relations consultant. She specializes in developing and implementing crisis communication and litigation communication programs, as well as global communication programs for nonprofit global health and international development organizations.
She is an experienced project manager overseeing grassroots organizing efforts, community outreach and strategic communication strategies in a range of industries. For instance, as part of her crisis communication work, she headed a multi-discipline team of media relations, government relations and community outreach that successfully helped a pipeline company recover from a deadly accident.
As part of APCO’s litigation communication practice, Ms. Brown has worked on a wide range of cases, including alleged antitrust violations, product liability, environmental remediation, energy policy, hospital negligence suits, theme park safety issues, royalty disputes and whistleblower allegations.
In the global health, development sector, Ms. Brown helped develop and oversee a global communication strategy for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and currently serves as strategic communication counsel to the Rural Development Institute, a 40-year-old NGO whose strategic focus is to alleviate global poverty through a program of long-term or legal rights to land ownership.
Prior to joining APCO, Ms. Brown owned and operated her own public affairs and strategic communication firm for 15 years in Seattle. Before that, she was an award-winning print reporter and editor in Washington, California and Illinois. She served as business editor and assistant city editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a reporter for the Associated Press in Los Angeles, editor of City News Service in Los Angeles and Orange counties, reporter for the Sacramento Bee, and got her start as a reporter for the Aurora Beacon News. Her background as a former reporter and editor has proven of benefit to clients operating within the public arena.
Over the years, Ms. Brown has served as a senior counselor to a wide range of clients on diverse public policy issues, including: energy, health care, international trade, transportation, public works projects, growth management and land use, labor-management relations (including whistleblower issues), education reform and foster care.
Ms. Brown graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.
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