Laury Bryant, Community Volunteer/Activist

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Laury Bryant has spent the past twenty plus years in the public relations/public affairs fields. Her career has included communications advice for individuals, foundations, Fortune 100s, non-profits and start-up companies. She started her career in the heyday of the technology sector where she lead the early communications work at Aldus Corporation, now Adobe Systems. She went on to work with Microsoft’s Public Relations agency, Waggener Edstrom until breaking out on her own. Laury’s own public affairs company – Lucas Bryant and Berg (LB2) served as the first communications counsel to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation during its start-up phase as the Gates Library Foundation in the late ‘90s. LB2 was purchased by Washington DC-based APCO Worldwide in early 2000, where she worked in their strategic philanthropy division. While her clients’ needs are varied, all draw upon her skills, including: communications strategy and planning, key message development, media relations and training, media database management, and focus group research. Laury sits on a wide range of nonprofit boards and advisory committees. She co-founded Partners for our Children – a public/private partnership within the University of Washington’s School of Social Work. Other board seats have included the Venture Philanthropy organization, Social Venture Partners. Laury is a communications graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle.