Committed to public policy issues ranging from health care to water quality to homelessness, Nora Ferrell has spent years helping nonprofits and foundations tell their stories. As the director of communications at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, her work includes creating public relations strategies to support the Trust’s mission to invest in impact, building relationships with the media, overseeing the Trust’s online presence, and working hard to make the world of philanthropy understandable to the average person. Prior to joining the organization in 2012, she served as the vice president of the Chicago-based nonprofit Community Media Workshop, communications director & editor at the think tank Minnesota 2020, and senior account executive at Valerie Denney Communications, a public interest public relations firm in Chicago. In 2007, Nora’s media work around police torture in Chicago won the Publicity Club of Chicago’s Edwin J. Shaughnessy’s Quality of Life Award, one of the highest honors awarded by the Club each year. Nora earned a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Specialties: Strategic communications, project management, media strategy, social media strategy, media and marketing trainings, client management, nonprofit communications, public speaking