Max Burns, Founder and Chief Strategist
Max is an award-winning advocacy communicator and political columnist for CNN, MSNBC, The Hill, DAME Magazine, The Daily Beast and other national outlets. Max brings over sixteen years of experience helping companies, candidates and issue campaigns achieve their messaging goals.
Max built a record of success as Communications Director for the international advocacy group Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and drove media around some of Change.org’s largest political petitions as U.S. Communications Manager. He also managed a portfolio of trade group and private sector clients as a Senior Associate at The Glover Park Group from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, Max served as a Public Policy Communications specialist in Facebook’s Washington, D.C. office, and as a Press Fellow to U.S. Congressman André Carson (D-IN).
Max’s strategic communications work has elevated the messaging of organizations including Transparency International, the Health Action Alliance, the Civic Alliance, Ford Motor Company and ArgoAI.
In 2019, Max was named a Public Relations Society of America Exceptional Communicator Under 35 for his work to end immigrant family separation and mass incarceration as Head of Communications for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
Max holds a BA in Government and International Relations from George Mason University and an MA in Media and Public Affairs from The George Washington University.