Meg O'Brien Barrett Email & Phone Number

Advocate, CSR, and communications professional delivering entrepreneurial based solutions to help firms fulfill social impact goals. Practiced provider of tailored CSR strategic planning and collaborative business options for public/private partnerships. Skilled in grant appraisals, community outreach/consituent services, workforce development & partnership negotiation with firms & nonprofits on three tiers: international, national, and local. Areas of Expertise✔ Community Outreach/Constituency Services✔ Advocacy✔ Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy✔ Strategic Communications✔ Corporate Communications✔ Business Development✔ Program Management and Evaluation✔ Public Speaking✔ Research ✔ International Relations✔ Non Profit Representation✔ Project Management✔ Film Production✔ PhilanthropySelected Accomplishments♦ Brokered corporate engagement opportunities for an INGO with McCormick & Co., Under Armour, Dogfish Head, T. Rowe Price, & Colgate.♦ Managed regulatory reform for the Maryland Department of Aging. Secured passage of new regulations with the Governor’s Legislative Office and Maryland General Assembly. Managed @ $5 M in State senior housing grants.♦ Served on Governor Hogan’s Interagency Council on Homelessness: 2019-2020.♦ Co-produced a documentary film focusing on immigration from Central America to the U.S. which premiered in Washington DC, and was selected by film festivals and university screenings throughout the U.S. The film shows the economic/social push and pull factors of immigration and the consequences of human trafficking throughout Central America, Mexico, and the D.C. metro region.♦ Designed and launched media plan for major defense contractor publicizing commercial applications of defense technologies. Resulted in White House spotlight on this Fortune 500 company as a national model. ♦ Collaborated in an advocacy strategy which secured public policy changes with the IRS and the Social Security Administration regarding dependent status of children whose adoptions are awaiting finalization. ♦ Developed relationships with key decision makers of national and regional associations for the betterment of CRS including the National Business Roundtable, The John Carroll Society and the Greater Baltimore Committee, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Listed skills include Corporate Social Responsibility, Project Management, Philanthropy, Community Outreach, and 21 others.