Ethan specializes in campaign management, issue advocacy and strategy development. He works with clients across industries and sectors, including nonprofits, labor organizations and consumer-facing companies. Before Avoq, Ethan worked as a compliance associate at an international food and beverage company and previously interned with Avoq on the account leadership team. Ethan is a Michigan native
Department: Account Leadership
Patricia Clemente
Patricia’s experience in advertising and storytelling spans across different media, clients and languages. She has a strong focus in digital and paid media strategy and content development. Patricia has worked with clients in the tourism, healthcare, nonprofit, and public and private industries. Prior to Avoq, Patricia was an associate on the Brunswick Group creative team.
Mary Liz Casey
Mary Liz is an expert in developing effective and comprehensive brand and marketing strategies to tackle complex business challenges. Her experience includes working with Fortune 500 companies and national non-profit organizations across industries and sectors, such as Allstate, Delta Air Lines, New York Life, Wells Fargo, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Anna Poulson
Anna works directly with clients to create and execute a communications strategy and help them meet their strategic goals. She facilitates clear day-to-day communications between her clients and the agency and helps drive integrated campaign development and deliverable execution internally. Anna has supported the campaign development and production of multiple PSAs and leads communications for
Gretchen McCarthy
Gretchen specializes in managing client priorities related to advocacy, advertising, messaging and creative development. She works with D.C.-based clients in healthcare, technology and transportation. Gretchen helped lead an award-winning campaign that contributed to the 2022 passage of the CHIPS and Science Act. Prior to this, she worked as a research assistant at the Children’s Digital
Samara Tu
Samara specializes in campaign and reputation management and issue advocacy. She works with clients across industries, including finance and healthcare. Samara provides communications support and counsel to a number of consumer-facing companies as well as industry associations and labor groups. Before Avoq, Samara helped devise and support integrated marketing and communications campaigns for federal agencies,
Maggie Bergin
Maggie leverages her experience across industries and sectors to bring the right solutions and strategies to her clients’ communications challenges. She works with the account leadership and project management teams to ensure that client deliverables are on time and on budget. Maggie has a long career of working within advertising agencies in Washington, D.C., and
Emily Premo
Emily works with clients across industries, including science, technology, finance and the nonprofit space. Her work on an industry association’s website redesign led to a 48% increase in pageviews in Q3 2023 as compared with Q3 2022. Before Avoq, Emily was in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. She worked at a television production company
Anne Jenkins
Anne oversees strategic client accounts and leads campaign strategy and execution. She has over 20 years of experience developing, implementing and managing strategic communications and paid media programs for public and private sector organizations, associations and higher education institutions. Anne excels at understanding the details of a client’s business and policy issues while maintaining a
Lizzie Kubo Kirschenbaum
Lizzie specializes in campaign management, branding and messaging and strategy development. She is passionate about working with clients across industries and sectors — from nonprofit and philanthropic endeavors to economic development and more. Prior to joining Avoq, Lizzie served as the director of communications for Vital Voices, an international women’s leadership nonprofit, leading the organization’s