Charlotte Clymer to Deliver Institute on Media Ethics Keynote Clymer will discuss advocacy communications in her March 19 lecture.
Charlotte Clymer, writer and communications consultant, will deliver the keynote address on “Advocacy Communications and the New American Normal” at Washington and Lee University’s 79th Institute on Media Ethics at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, in the Northen Auditorium in Leyburn Library.
The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by W&L’s Knight Program in Media Ethics and the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications.
In her talk, Clymer will discuss the purpose of advocacy communications, which focuses on creating change in policy, beliefs or practice, and how to do this ethically — and successfully — in today’s political and cultural environment.
“The annual Media Ethics Institute offers our students who are studying strategic communications, as well as the wider community, the opportunity to hear from a public relations practitioner who shares their insights and perspectives,” said Ady Dewey, the Reynolds Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategic Communications.
A military veteran and transgender activist, Clymer writes “Charlotte’s Web Thoughts,” a popular Substack newsletter about politics, religion and culture, which has been named a finalist for Outstanding Blog at the 2023 and 2024 GLAAD Media Awards. Clymer previously served as the director of communications and strategy at Catholics for Choice and as the press secretary for Rapid Response at the Human Rights Campaign.
Among her many areas of service, Clymer was named to the 13th class of political fellows at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service in the fall of 2021, and in 2022, she was nominated by Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to serve on the D.C. Human Rights Commission, becoming the first openly transgender person to do so. She also volunteers on the advisory councils for Modern Military Families of America, an advocacy organization for LGBTQ service members and their families, and the Lone Star Parity Project, which works to increase the representation of women elected officials in Texas.
“We are excited to welcome Charlotte Clymer to campus to be this year’s speaker,” said Dewey. “She brings her experiences with human rights organizations and governmental commissions, and as a writer and commentator, to our ongoing conversation on building authentic relationships and community, which are the foundations of public relations. Her stories, like all stories, matter as does her voice as an openly transgender person.”
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