Shazat Shawan

Shazat Shawan

Shazat supports clients with strategic communications, in-depth research, earned media, legislative efforts, social media management and digital campaign work. He works with clients across sectors, including nonprofits, renewable energy companies, law firms and advocacy groups. Shazat has worked on several notable Avoq projects, including an effort to pass the Clean Water, Clean Air and Green

Grace Biggio

Grace Biggio

Grace supports clients with strategic communications, in-depth research, earned media efforts and digital campaign work. She engages with clients across a variety of sectors, including healthcare, technology and clean energy. Prior to joining Avoq, Grace worked at Social Studies Inc., a New York City-based digital marketing start-up. Before that, she served as a legislative intern

Arielle Goren

Arielle has nearly two decades of experience in political, corporate and crisis communications, from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley and the campaign trail to the C-suite. Prior to her current role at Avoq, Arielle founded and ran Juno Strategies, a boutique consultancy specializing in social impact communications for start-ups and nonprofits. Working with a diverse

Ariel Smith

Ariel Smith

Ariel specializes in industry research and strategic design to maximize exposure for awareness campaigns, special projects and experiential events that will attract consumers, stakeholders and brand partnerships. Before Avoq, Ariel served as an associate strategist at Taylor, a full-service creative communications agency. In this position, she developed strategy, built powerful brand narratives and engaged media

Amanda Knightly

Amanda is a strategic communicator with experience in issue advocacy, coalition building, content creation and campaign management. Prior to joining Avoq, Amanda served as the digital director on a successful campaign to protect workers’ rights in Massachusetts. She has also worked as a digital strategist on congressional campaigns and in the nonprofit space. Amanda got

Zach Silber

Zach Silber

A pioneer in the strategic communications field, Zach works across Avoq’s offices to lead the firm’s insights and innovation practice — an award-winning team of technologists and data strategists charged with analyzing news, social media, advertising and audience trends. The group integrates cutting-edge data tools and technologies throughout Avoq’s campaigns. Zach’s work has put Avoq

Abbey Mazur

Abbey Mazur

Abbey specializes in content creation, branding and video production. She enjoys collaborating with creative teams to bring big ideas to life through engaging, eye-catching design. Her work includes creating storyboards for videos, designing website landing pages for a client rebrand, offering strategic counsel, and creating ads, social media graphics, fact sheets and other pieces of

Molly Scherrman

Molly Scherrman

As chief operating officer, Molly oversees the day-to-day management of Avoq and its business operations with a constant focus on ensuring everything is running efficiently and harmoniously. With two decades of campaign, finance and team management experience, she brings a track record of success managing scalable operations, along with long-term strategic planning. Molly specializes in

Rachel Roseneck

Rachel specializes in strategic communications, public affairs and stakeholder engagement. She leads projects with a focus on energy, tech and infrastructure. Rachel leads the development and implementation of multi-faceted communications and stakeholder engagement campaigns that reach target audiences, increase brand awareness and advance critical energy infrastructure projects. She brings in-depth experience in implementing circular storytelling