Maura Colleton Corbett

About Maura Colleton Corbett

Maura Colleton Corbett is the Founder and Senior Advisor for the Glen Echo Group where she led the team’s award-winning work in telling the stories of the companies and organizations building the digital economy. With over 30 years of communications, creative, public affairs and coalition building experience, Corbett provides strategic counsel to clients faced with the complicated challenges surrounding the shift to a digital world, including AI, innovation policy, broadband deployment, emerging technologies and content-related issues including privacy, cybersecurity and copyright. Corbett helps clients translate technologies and innovations into compelling campaigns that resonate with policymakers, the press and the public in order to inform forward-looking, successful policy and market outcomes. She has unique and deep-rooted experience in industry coalition building for a number of high-profile technology issues, including free speech, broadband/spectrum, competition/antitrust, and trust & safety. She has also done significant work on mergers and acquisitions within the communications and digital media space.Corbett is a member of the Board of Directors for Public Knowledge, the Chamber of Progress and the GLIA Foundation, as well as the Advisory Boards of SpectrumX and Lawfare. She is a frequent speaker and commentator on Internet and technology public policy, coalition building, branding and the media.Corbett was named one of Washington’s Tech Titans and recognized as one of the Washingtonian\'s 500 Most Influential from 2022 to 2026. She was a member of The Information\'s \"Tech Frontline\" in 2020, and was awarded the WWPR PR Woman of the Year in 2019. She received the PR Week\'s 2014 PR Woman of the Year and the 2010 Women in Technology Leadership Award for her demonstration of exemplary leadership skills and exceptional results in community-related work, the first WIT award ever for a woman in the public affairs industry. She is the proud mother of two marvelous daughters and one very naughty dog. In a previous life long ago, she used to moonlight as the lead singer in a rock band.

Experience

1. Founder and Senior Advisor

   Glen Echo Group, an Orchestra company

   Nov 2025 — Present · Washington, DC, US

Skills

• Public Policy
• Strategic Communications
• Coalition Building
• Message Development
• Issues Management
• Reputation Management
• Grassroots Organizing
• Media Relations
• Speech Writing
• Communications Strategy
• Executive Communications
• Public Relations
• Corporate Communications
• Messaging
• Social Media
• New Media
• Strategic Planning
• Government Affairs
• Event Management
• Writing
• Advertising
• Copywriting
• Crisis Communications
• Government Relations
• Brand Development
• Non-Profits
• Public Speaking
• Coalitions
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Policy
• Press Releases
• Public Affairs
• Legislative Relations
• Internal Communications
• Leadership
• Spokesperson
• Digital Media
• Grassroots