Colleen Wilber, a former member of the American Cancer Society’s advocacy team, is now at Qorvis MSLGroup as VP/media relations.
She joins from America's Promise Alliance, the non-profit that works to cut down the number of high school dropouts.
APA, an outgrowth of the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, says six million people aged 16 to 24 are neither in school nor employed. Wilber served as VP/media relations at the Washington-based group.
She was senior manager of media advocacy at the ACS and was an account staffer at Boston's O'Neill and Associates.
Publicis Groupe of France owns MSL.
DJE Holdings, parent of Edelman and Zeno, launches RUTH as an independent shop named after Ruth Edelman, mental health advocate, wife and longtime business partner of Dan Edelman.
New York City PR firms make up the largest slice of O'Dwyer's 147 firm overall ranking with 33 of 40 in the New York/New Jersey area either calling Manhattan their home or having a presence there.
Subject Matter+Kivvit, which joined forces in May, has rebranded as Avoq, an integrated shop with more than 200 professionals in Washington, New York, Asbury Park (NJ), Miami and Chicago.
While PR pros stationed at in-house comms. teams and those working for agencies share many of the same objectives, they also have markedly different top priorities, according to a recent report.
Edelman is cutting 240 employees or about four percent of its workforce to cope with the cooling down of the PR sector, according to a memo from CEO Richard Edelman.
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