CEO and Founder

Rachel Hamrick

Rachel has more than fifteen years of experience providing strategic communications counsel to a wide-range of clients.  Her expertise includes grassroots and grass tops mobilization, issues management, policy development, advocacy campaigns, allied development, crisis communications and branding.  Rachel has helped create and implement issues and grassroots campaigns for a variety of clients including non-profits, trade associations, corporations and advocacy groups.  Prior to starting her own firm, Rachel Hamrick Communications, Rachel spent ten years as a Senior Vice President at New Partners Consulting and six years as a Vice President at APCO Worldwide where she specialized in developing programs for Fortune 500 companies that helped educate, engage and activate both employees and key allies to help launch corporate initiatives, advocate for legislative change, and effectively deal with crises.  

Before APCO, Rachel was associated with the Washington, DC law firm of Ropes & Gray where she worked in the general litigation, health care and legislative policy departments for a variety of corporate and association clients.  Rachel has also worked at the United Nations and the Carter Presidential Center at Emory University where she helped to develop and implement communications and government relations strategies at both the domestic and international level.