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. today, Wednesday, March 19, in the Northen Auditorium in Leyburn Library.
The lecture 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.
A military veteran and transgender activist, Clymer writes “Charlotte’s Web Thoughts,” a popular Substack newsletter about politics, religion and culture. 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.
