Brennan Meagher, Mpa Mph Email & Phone Number

Augusta, Ga, Us

Augusta, Georgia, United States

Maintain communication between Mayor, Commission, city staff, citizens, and the media Coordinate and advance the work of the Office of the Mayor. Manage all social media accounts. Represent the Mayor and City of Augusta in delegated projects and initiatives designed to achieve priorities and objectives of the Mayor. Respond to inquiries and complaints from the public. Provide complex administrative support to the Chief of Staff, Mayor, and Commissioners. Administration Accomplishments include: increased Facebook page likes by 142%. Worked in conjunction with the White House and Biden-Harris Administration on White House Workforce Hub Initiative. Coordinated with the White House to host the First Lady in July 2023 and November 2023. The Office of the Mayor wrote a referendum asking voters to approve a charter change giving the Mayor a vote on all Commission business. Augusta-Richmond County residents voted in favor of the referendum which resulted in the first Charter change since the city charter's inception. Spearheaded the creation of a charter review committee. Served as the point of contact for media relations and external communications for the Office of the Mayor during Hurricane Helene recovery and relief efforts. Coordinated with the Executive Office of the President and Office of the Vice President to host Vice President Kamala Harris.

Manage day-to-day operations, ensuring the success of ALG’s four primary program areas: Food Pharmacy, Food for Health, Education & Business Services, and Farmer’s Markets (live and online). Assist in the development and implementation of program initiatives to include assessment of community and organization needs, creating program objectives to serve those needs, and ensuring program objectives are met. Accountable for all aspects of ALG’s programs to include strategic planning and implementation, stakeholder relations, community outreach, logistics, regulatory and grant compliance, staff management and engagement, and budget management.

Work in collaboration with Executive Director to complete a community needs assessment and identify community impact priority areas. Manage programs related to community impact priority areas of food and healthcare access. Utilize social media and work with local news outlets to raise awareness on market's impact priorities. Serve as strategic communications and marketing lead. Responsible for creating, implementing and measuring the success of a comprehensive and integrated traditional media, social media and marketing plan. Collaborate with development team in meeting its objectives by providing appropriate tools, materials and presentations.

Work with local, regional and national news outlets to obtain news coverage for the university. Charged with content creation for both internal and external audiences. Serve as point-of-contact during crises and responsible for sharing on-call obligations with other members of the media relations team. Credited with increasing enrollment of public administration program by 100%. Created comprehensive database of faculty areas of expertise.

Augusta, Georgia Area

Responsible for promoting the university through content creation for internal and external audiences. This includes the internal news site, alumni and research magazines and video production. Accomplishments include: assistant producer of an award-winning documentary about the university’s first Olympian, traveled to Rio to cover the 2016 games on behalf of the university, and interviewed former-CIA director John Brennan.

Greater New York City Area

Managed a corporate/foundation grant portfolio worth $650,000 for an organization with a budget of less than $1 million. Responsible for identifying potential corporate and foundation funding sources.

Greater New York City Area

Prepared and submitted grant proposals. Maintained grant records. Aided in preparation of marketing materials. Assisted with event planning and preparation.

Augusta, Georgia Area

Worked as a staff writer from August 2012 to May 2013, and as a contributing editor in June 2013. Assisted the Editor-in-Chief in the assignment of weekly goals for staff and tracking of their completionWorked with EIC to generate story ideasEdited and fact checked submitted storiesIncreased readership by 8 percentUtilized InDesign and Photoshop to create layouts for submitted storiesRan staff meetings with EICConducted interviews and wrote articlesAssisted in advertisement designsParticipated in production and assembly of the magazineHelped plan the magazine's twentieth anniversary event

Master Of Public Health - Mph, Community Health

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Public Administration

Bachelor Of Communications, Concentration: Public Relations

Activities and Societies: The Phoenix Magazine, Alpha Delta Pi