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Pati Navalta | Founder, President
Pati Navalta is a longtime San Francisco Bay Area journalist and media and communications strategist, previously serving as Editorial Writer and Columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle, where she was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial series on the need for foster care reform in California. The series led to landmark changes in foster care in the state, improving the lives of millions of foster youth. Pati was later named Media Advocacy Director for the American Cancer Society, where she was based in Sacramento and created media and communication strategy to further legislation supported by the organization.
She worked directly with volunteers, legislators, and Board members by crafting messaging points, ghost-writing letters and commentaries, and providing media training. She later worked as Asia Regional Director for Global Footprint Network, an international organization that works with national governments and intergovernmental agencies on shaping sustainability policies. In this role, she worked directly with national governments and UN agencies on policies and projects with a focus on meeting economic goals within environmental limits. She also served as the PR strategist for Tides Foundation. She is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, and holds a Cornell University certificate in Diversity and Inclusion.
Our team members have years of industry — and beyond-industry — experience, from traditional media to digital campaigns.