AAPC Announces New Democratic Board Member
AAPC Announces New Democratic Board Member
WASHINGTON, D.C. (November, 2009)The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC), the world's largest non-partisan trade association for political professionals, announces Lorena Chambers as its newest Democratic board member.
Lorena is the CEO and co-founder of Chambers Lopez & Gaitán LLC located in Arlington, Virginia. Chambers Lopez & Gaitán delivers integrated strategies for political and social marketing campaigns that communicate effectively with voters and consumers, especially with communities of color.
Most recently, Chambers developed the creative campaign for www.healthequityforall.org, which launched in October 2009. In 2008, she led the only third-party advertising campaign targeting Hispanic voters to help elect President Obama, while also creating the Hispanic media for Senator Mark Warner's successful campaign in Virginia. Previously, she led the consulting team for the NEA's I.E. project and helped defeat the privatization of Social Security as the Hispanic media consultant with Americans United to Protect Social Security.
A graduate of UCLA and the University of Michigan, Ms. Chambers focused her graduate studies on the intersection of Latino history and feminist theory, and taught in the Department of History and in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Michigan. She has consulted on messaging campaigns in Austria, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela and has presented at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and appeared on CNN en español, Univision, Telemundo, and Destination Casa Blanca with Ray Suarez.
About AAPC
The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) is the world's largest organization of political and public affairs professionals. Founded in 1969, the AAPC is a bipartisan trade association with over 1,200 members from all fifty states and other countries. The AAPC membership reflects a wide range of ideologies, partisan affiliations and professional specialties, including students and academics. The AAPC is a national organization which represents the interest of political campaign and public affairs professional, provides opportunities for educations and training and sets a high standard of professionalism for the political consulting and public affairs industries.