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Teresa Wells Named Rockefeller Foundation's Chief Media StrategistJuly 15, 2008
Press release
NEW YORK, July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Rockefeller Foundation today announced the appointment of Teresa Wells as its Chief Media Strategist. She is based in New York and begins work immediately.
In this new role, Wells will oversee the Foundation's communications strategy and bear primary responsibility for shaping local, national, and worldwide news coverage of its work in print, electronic, and online media.
Wells is a seasoned veteran of political communications. She served previously as Deputy Director of Communications and South Carolina Director of Communications for former North Carolina Senator John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign. Prior to that she was Traveling Press Secretary to New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine, for whom she was also Director of Advance during his gubernatorial campaign.
Wells worked on the presidential campaigns of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley as a key interface with local and national reporters. She consulted on statewide political campaigns in Wisconsin, Virginia, and Missouri. And she began her political career in the Washington D.C. office of New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne.
"Teresa brings tremendous experience, boundless energy, and a reservoir of creativity to the Foundation during an extraordinary moment in its history," said Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation. "We will lean heavily on her vision and leadership in helping to elevate the message of our partners, grantees, and beneficiaries, ultimately strengthening the impact of our work."
"I am honored and privileged to join an institution with such a storied history and promising future," said Wells. "The Foundation is shaping solutions to the 21st century's biggest challenges, and I look forward to learning from, working with, and contributing to a remarkable team."
The Rockefeller Foundation was established by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., in 1913 to "promote the well-being" of humanity. With assets exceeding $4 billion, the Foundation supports work around the world to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and communities and to help ensure that globalization's benefits are more widely shared. In the last three years, the Rockefeller Foundation has launched major initiatives to strengthen global health systems, bolster resilience to climate change in poor communities around the world, mobilize an agricultural revolution in Africa, rebuild New Orleans in the wake of Katrina, and inform smarter, more sustainable transportation policies in the United States.
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