What People Are Saying About Meredith
On Strategic Communications Services + Support
“Working with Meredith feels like having both a brilliant strategist and a steadfast ally. She brings a rare blend of rigor and heart to everything she touches, navigating movement spaces with an intuition that is as sharp as it is kind. Meredith doesn’t just help organizations find their voice, she ensures they feel truly seen and supported every step of the way. With her, the work isn’t just more impactful; it’s more human.”
— Julian Jackson, Vice President of People and Culture, African-American Policy Forum
On Media Training
“Meredith's media training was incredibly insightful and helpful, for our team and for me as a leader. It helped ground us specifically in how we translate our message—what we want to say to the media and what we want them to know about us. Meredith also makes media training easy. She makes it feel like you can do it and without needing years of education in communications to succeed. She gave our team practical lessons and inspired them, which was invaluable. Meredith's masterful facilitation style engages trainees to mobilize and activate around communications and builds confidence in a space where people don't normally walk confidently, and that is as much about Meredith and her delivery as anything else.”
— Brenda Battle, Senior Vice President, Community Health Transformation, Chief DEI Officer at UChicago Medicine
On Media Relations
“Meredith's excellent strategic guidance, message development, and coaching of our senior leadership team were critical to the success of our media strategy. Meredith worked closely with us to develop compelling messages, pitch major media outlets, and provide personalized media training and coaching for specific interviews for senior staff. Her advice and support were indispensable and resulted in significant coverage across a number of local news networks, as well as several feature pieces that provided broad exposure for our organization.”
— Cheryl Wittenstein, Director of Marketing of The Ark
On Working With Public Policy Students
“Meredith teaches with deep wells of empathy for her students, passion to see them succeed, and wisdom born of experience. At the Harris School of Public Policy, she teaches an incredibly popular course in which students learn how to prepare policy documents for a real client that then uses the work to further their mission and achieve their strategic goals. I can’t think of a more valuable experience for a graduate student, nor can I think of a better instructor to help them bridge the gap between the analytical toolkit we teach here at Harris and the real-world communication challenges they will face every day as policy leaders.”
— David Chrisinger, Executive Director of the Harris School of Public Policy Writing Program
Meredith in the News
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"Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast: Evan Osnos, Meredith Shiner & Rebecca Katz"
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"Gen Z Is Politically Old Before Its Time: There's long been a gender gap in how older voters cast their ballots. Now the youngest voters show a similar split."
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“Are Aging Democrats Finally Getting the Message? Restive young Democrats are pushing the old guard, including high-ranking Sen. Dick Durbin, toward the exits."
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"Episode 502: The Daily Beast's The New Abnormal Podcast, with guest Meredith Shiner"
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"For Democrats, it’s time to get rude ‘Your job one is to make life as difficult as possible for them,’ some progressives argue"
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"TNR's The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent, featuring guest Meredith Shiner"
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"Why pick Chicago for the Democratic National Convention? The Illinois host city is a nod to the Democrats’ ambitions of a ‘blue wall’ — but it also evokes a troubling history."
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"How has American Jewish culture shaped sports in the United States? That’s the question host Meredith Shiner answers in the new eight-part podcast, 'The Franchise: Jews, Sports, and America.' Reset gets the scoop."
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"Episode 248: The impact of Al Michaels criticizing Dan Snyder during an NFL broadcast — and a new podcast exploring the intersection of sports and American Jewish culture"
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"To find balance amid a pandemic, more working moms pushed to work for themselves"
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"Getting the Word Out: A Harris Class Informs Real-World Strategy"
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"We Could Be in the Middle of a Major Covid Spike and Not Even Know It"
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"Sexual Assault Survivors in Journalism Are Waiting for Their Reckoning"
