Caren Benjamin
Strategic Advocacy | Ethical Storytelling | Campaign Content
- Role
- Chief External Affairs Officer at Polaris Formerly Polaris Project
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Caren Benjamin
Campaign communications; Organizational leadership. Highly skilled in integrated marketing and digital engagement; brand management; message development and dissemination; media relations; stakeholder/external affairs; product development; multi-channel issue-advocacy, public-awareness and narrative-shift campaigns. Former award-winning journalist, writing coach, freelance speechwriter, copywriter and media trainer.
Experience
Chief External Affairs Officer
Polaris Formerly Polaris Project
Oct 2017 — Present · Washington, DC, US
Senior leadership of largest organization working to reduce sex and labor trafficking in North America. Building and managing strategies and teams to execute human rights policy and advocacy campaigns, shift narratives around human rights abuses, and build vital external alliances, and market and promote the work and expertise of the organization.
Education
Colorado College
BA, English Literature and Urban Studies
1987 — 1991
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Master's degree, Print Journalism
1994
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