Marketing & Communications Committee Chair Senior Director, Global Content, Strategic Planning and Operations, Visa     Jennifer Shapiro is a global brand and content leader with 17+ years of experience driving award-winning brand campaigns for Fortune 100 companies and clients including BlackRock, Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi, Canon, NFL, Macy’s, National Park...

      Operations Committee Co-Chair Founder & Lead Strategist, Jarel Communications     Wendy J. Roundtree, APR is the Founder and Lead Strategist of Jarel Communications, an award-winning social impact agency that works with world-changers to amplify their stories. The agency's work includes clients on the frontlines of affordable housing, education,...

      Programming Committee Co-Chair Digital Content Strategist   Neda has been a leader in the streaming content industry almost from its inception. A broadcast journalist turned digital product leader, she is an expert at merging content and product strategy to create and launch new applications. She has driven the content...

In January, we featured Public’s “It’s Effing Water” as a bold campaign that was taking risks and making waves. We recently connected with Phillip Haid, Public’s Founder & CEO, to get a behind-the-scenes look at the campaign....

Lately however, we find there is an undeniable sense of purpose to being a professional storyteller. Against a backdrop of the ongoing turbulence that has characterized the past few years...