Founded in 2023, Open Media is a female-founded communications agency with experience spanning government, community, and nonprofit sectors. As experts in strategic communications, community engagement, and policy and public affairs, we empower our clients to fulfill their missions, build trust, and inspire meaningful action
01 Evidence-Based Strategies
We identify, advance, and promote research-driven communication strategies that help governments and community-serving organizations tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
02 Research & Discovery
We engage with partners and stakeholders to frame your cause, understand your audience, and build a shared vision with strong buy-in.
03 Strategy & Design
We specialize in narrative development, branding, and content creation, crafting compelling stories and visual identities that resonate with audiences, strengthen brand trust, and drive meaningful engagement.
04 Campaign Execution
We develop breakthrough ideas that foster meaningful engagement through social, paid, earned, and owned media, along with offline activities and experiences.
Our process
05 Measurement
We work to define and measure the success of our strategies—helping clients understand how their investments have raised awareness, shifted attitudes, and motivated people to take action.
Our values
Our values guide how we work with clients, approach our projects, and build our culture.
Centering care
In everything we do, we are unwavering in our commitment to care for people, place, and planet.
Working joyfully
In a fast-changing and complicated world, we are choose joy and view challenges as opportunities waiting to be discovered.
Evidence-based
We identify and innovate evidence-based communications – to help our clients maximize impact and move society forward.
Everyone’s voice
We love bold ideas and bringing together people of all lived experiences to deliver out-of-the-box solutions and transformative results.
Systems change
We drive systems change by amplifying community voices and co-creating narratives that inspire collective action for a just future for all.
Who we are
We are a passionate team on a mission to transform government communication against the backdrop of unprecedented challenges and pressures facing communities and the planet. Our people come from diverse disciplines and lived experiences and are united in the belief that evidence-based and people-centric government communication is one of the most powerful tools for positive change in the 21st century.
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Emily is Founder and CEO of Open Media. For the past twelve years working for five cities, the California Governor, federal agencies like FEMA, as well as starting a community-based climate nonprofit, her work has focused on connecting government and the public through meaningful communication and engagement strategies.
In 2023, Emily started Open Media with the mission to help government build a more open, evidence-based, and forward-thinking culture of communication able to keep apace and perhaps ahead of unprecedented transformation in the world.
In her free time, Emily loves to mountain bike, cook with her friends and family, and read.