Barbara Escobar Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Agency recognized in Observer PR Power List 2024, 2019, 2018, and The PR Net 100 2024, 2023Delivering strategy and execution of communications and reputation building programs for organizations involved in the arts and culture sector, including art market entities and those intersecting with social impact, real estate, luxury, art/tech, fintech, web3. Partnering with leadership on crisis communications and issues management, internal communications, thought leadership initiativesMember of agency's executive leadership team; co-created and co-lead agency's digital/social media practiceClients have included Brookfield Properties, HTC Vive Arts, Art Dealers Association of America, Frieze Art Fairs (New York, London, Los Angeles), Rolex, Dallas Museum of Art, The Wallace Foundation, the web3 platform Verse, The Gordon Parks Foundation, Vision & Justice, Therme Group, Superblue, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Greenhouse Auctions, Collective Design, US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Baltimore Museum of Art/Rose Art Museum)

New York, Ny

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

- Created new CPG food category and launched product in physical retail locations- Created multiple e-commerce sales pipelines- Spearheaded all marketing and communications activities, including PR, social media, POS and spanning consumer, B2B, media and investor audiences- Won "Best New Retail Product" from Refrigerated & Frozen Foods magazine award in 2017- Achieved feature coverage from outlets including The New York Times, Cooking Channel, Grub Street/New York Magazine, Epicurious, BestProducts.com

New York, Ny

- Spearheaded earned, owned, and paid media for 120+ programs, events and publications annually- Conceived and implemented organization’s first cross-functional systems to manage all external communications, including donor relations. - Contributed to increase in sales revenue through quality, variety, frequency of press coverage in outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, TIME, Slate, Monocle- Oversaw Digital Marketing Assistant in doubling social media following over 2 years- Conceived and executed 60+ events per year in NYC and internationally with partner venues- Forged revenue- and lead-generating partnerships and corporate sponsorships around Foundation projects

New York, Ny

Global coordinator of catalogues and direct marketing distributions across 8 offices (US, Europe, Asia) and all departments: contemporary art, photography, editions, design, jewelry

Washington, Dc

Managed media relations when the nonprofit sparked a national movement by screening David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" after the video's removal from the "Hide/Seek" exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; more than 80 organizations across the US followed suit

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Philadelphia, Pa

After 2004 internship, asked to return as full-time 2005 summer associate to manage the "Access the Arts" program, which distributed 30,000 complimentary tickets to area nonprofits; responsible for vetting applications and managing distributions and relationships with nonprofits; also supported the Marketing dept. in implementing various direct marketing tactics

Ma, Museum Studies

Ba, Philosophy, Art History

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Mu - International Honor Society for the Social Sciences