Katie Christopher Franklin

About Katie Christopher Franklin

Senior communications strategist with experience developing and implementing award-winning programs across industry sectors. Experienced in working with clients to identify policy and consumer communications goals, and developing results-driven, highly targeted integrated campaigns that mobilize audiences, engage influencers, and elevate the organization’s visibility, deliver on their KPIs, and create their desired outcomes through various media channels. Clients range from consumer brands, health organizations, high-profile personalities, major foundations, federal agencies, and non-profits.Extensive experience with patient and grassroots advocacy, media relations, corporate comms and messaging, event planning, and congressional relations. Skilled at crisis and issues management - from Capitol Hill hearings and inquiries to organizational and political crises. Recent noteworthy awards include the 2020 PRWeek US Award for Public Affairs on behalf of the Recording Academy: Bringing Music Law into the 21st Century. Current and past clients include AARP Services, the American Kidney Fund, Hyundai Hope on Wheels, Virginia\'s 2019 Commemoration, American Evolution, Allianz Travel, Goodwin House, Inc, EpiGenomics, Jamaica Tourist Board, King Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Professional Compounding Centers of America, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Recording Academy, National Cooperative Business Association, International Council of Shopping Centers,the National Council on Aging, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the Alice Ferguson Foundation,Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Alatech Healthcare.

Experience

1. Senior Partner

   FINN Partners

   Apr 2021 — Present

Education

• Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg

  B.A. in Mass Communications

Skills

• Press Releases
• Awareness Raising
• Non-Profits
• Strategic Communications
• Media Relations