Charles Cinque Fulwood

Charles Fulwood, co-founder and Partner of MediaVision USA, LLC, is a veteran communications and media strategist with more than 20 years of national and international experience. He specializes in strategic communications planning, media campaigns, environmental branding, diversity communications, crisis management, and corporate social responsibility.

A seasoned expert in managing complex and controversial issues, Fulwood also specializes in crisis and emergency communications, message development, media training, and translating scientific, legal, and technical information for lay and media audiences. He has an extensive track record in designing strategic campaigns that engage media, policy-makers, elected officials, and the public.

Fulwood is also a member of the teaching faculty of Johns Hopkins University, instructing a graduate course in Emergency and Risk Communications. Fulwood is the former Communications Director for Amnesty International USA, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Children's Defense Fund. Fulwood was media director for Amnesty International's 1988 World Tour, an 18-country concert tour promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Sting, Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, Bruce Springsteen, and other top artists.

During his tenure at the Natural Resources Defense Council, he created the International ECO-Awards, designed to recognize outstanding communications and media campaigns and products in the field of environmental branding.

Fulwood's private and corporate clients have included the United Nations, US. Surgeon General, The Rockefeller Foundation, Concerts for Human Rights Foundation, Amtrak, The Wilderness Society, National Black United Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Credit Suisse First Boston, ABC Prime Time, CBS News, HBO, and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. For more information, see Fulwood's Wikipedia bio.

Margo Edmunds

Margo Edmunds, co-founder and Managing Partner of MediaVision USA, LLC, is a policy analyst and management consultant with 20 years experience in health policy research, program evaluation, and strategic communications. Her clients have included federal, state, and local governments; foundations; not-for-profit organizations; associations; and corporations. A former Vice President at The Lewin Group, she recently joined the IT Systems Group at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she works with clients to promote adoption of health information technology and health information exchange.

We have worked with public policy, philanthropic, and membership organizations; international campaigns and institutions; appointed and elected officials in Congress and the White House, and federal and state agencies.

Edmunds specializes in using information technology and strategic communications to reach policy goals. Over the course of her career, she has designed, implemented, and evaluated high-visibility initiatives on access to health care, environmental health, emergency preparedness, consumer health communications, cultural competency, and other areas. She has been recognized as an online thought leader by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Pew Internet Project. Edmunds serves on expert advisory panels, is active in the leadership of national professional organizations, and is a frequent presenter at national meetings and conferences.

A former member of the teaching faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she has trained more than 300 public health and medical professionals in health policy analysis and strategic communications. She developed an online course on risk communication for the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness, and she currently is co-instructor for a graduate course in Emergency and Risk Communication at the Johns Hopkins graduate program in communications.

Edmunds previously was Principal Strategist for Health Policy and Communications at the American Institutes for Research, where she provided strategic management and technical and operational oversight on multi-million dollar, multi-year communications research projects for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Cancer Institute, and Office of Minority Health. She formed and directed cross-functional teams, developed decision support tools, and introduced quality assurance and workflow changes to improve client satisfaction.

Previously, Edmunds held senior management positions at the Children's Defense Fund, Institute of Medicine, and University of California, San Francisco. She began her health care career as a Clinical and Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she also served on the affiliate clinical staff of Johns Hopkins Hospital for 6 years. Edmunds holds a multidisciplinary doctoral degree in human development from Penn State. For more info, see Edmunds' Wikipedia bio.