Renee Austin

Renee was drawn to the high-tech communications early in her career because she liked the transformative change an innovative discovery could bring to the world. Her migration to the Social Impact practice evolved much the same way, as she marveled over the ability of a socially conscious organization to help tranform the lives of millions of people for the better. Renee specializes in strategic communications, executive support and high-impact global public relations campaigns for foundations and nonprofits. Renee has a passion for tapping into grassroots to build advocacy for a cause or social issue, such as her recent work with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation to develop a book for urban moms to help them instill healthy habits in their children. With experience in childhood health and education issues, Renee also has a personal passion to help cure diabetes through research, and her work with childhood obesity-related clients and issues shares a common theme of the importance of healthy living. With bachelor’s degrees in journalism and English with Honors from the University of Missouri - Columbia, Renee loves the written word and its power to inspire a vision, a feeling or an action.