Our team is delighted to announce that Elise McGlothian is now a Director at Minerva Strategies! In late 2019, Elise made a big career change—from TV news to the nonprofit sector—bringing her storytelling skills gained as a producer to a new role advocating for positive change on Capitol Hill with the American Cancer Society Cancer…
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Kayla McMenamin As a fully remote team, our calendars are regularly filled with meetings and our inboxes boom with notifications. We are agile communicators through and through. Rarely, though, do we block our calendars off for 48 hours, silence the notifications, and connect by tapping each other on the shoulder rather than messaging over Teams. That is…
Gaby España Every quarter, we send our Minerva friends and fans a letter with seasonal sentiments from a member of our team and news and articles we don’t want them to miss. Want to get our newsletters delivered to your inbox? Subscribe here. *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Dear Reader, When I look back on this past season, it’s hard…
Caroline Hall Minerva is pleased to welcome our new intern, Falisha Hola (she/her)! Her identity as a Pasifika woman has allowed her to understand firsthand the misrepresentation and the erasure of indigenous and BIPOC voices from the conversations around social issues. I was privileged to speak with Falisha to learn more about her Tongan community in Seattle,…
For the past decade, Minerva has been evolving and becoming a stronger and better company. I was thrilled to celebrate our 10th anniversary together with our team in Seattle this past fall. Minerva is now at the next step of that evolution: improving our leadership structure. I am pleased to announce that, as of January…
Joy Portella We are ringing in the new year with a brand-new Minerva team member: Please welcome our first intern of 2023, Caroline Hall (she/her)! An avid reader and collector of quotes, Caroline graduated last June from the University of Washington and lives in the Emerald City, where she’s from. The Minerva team is excited to learn…
Crystal Isbell is the newest member of the Minerva Strategies team! A native of East Chicago, Indiana (named so due to its proximity to the major metro area), Crystal took a leap of faith, with a healthy splash of fear, to take her experiences from the University of Kentucky and Indiana University and apply her…
Elise McGlothian Being a fully remote team has its upsides—diverse geographical perspectives, the ability to work within clients’ time zones, and festive virtual backgrounds. But while a remote lifestyle has worked well for our growing team, we cherish the opportunities where we can be together in real life. In mid-October, the team flew from our respective work…
By Joy Portella — Minerva Strategies has reached an exciting milestone: we’re turning 10 years old! It seems like just yesterday that I started Minerva and it’s been so exciting to see the company grow and evolve into a first-class communications consultancy with amazing culture, mission, people, and clients. It’s everything I could have imagined…but…
The start of the school year is a special time for students, but it’s also an exciting time here at Minerva Strategies because we get to welcome a new intern! Kati Rodríguez Pérez (she/they) joins us from Portland, Oregon, and brings her experience in education and policy work to our team. Kati trusted me with…