Clare Kenny - Profile and Journalist Details

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Clare Kenny is a diversity and inclusion strategist with an expertise in media, community engagement, and social impact programs. She serves as the Program Director for the Yes And... Laughter Lab, a competitive incubation lab and pitch program co-created by the Center for Media & Social Impact at American University and Moore + Associates. The Laughter Lab lifts up the best emerging comedy writers and performers creating new comedy about topics that matter, with a focus on BIPOC, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and women. Through this work she establishes and maintains robust partnerships with leaders in the entertainment media industry, comedians and entertainers, non-profits, social justice organizations, among others. Clare volunteers as a PR & Media Consultant for the Body Politic COVID-19 Support Group. Clare connects journalists to a community of more than 18,000 COVID-19 patients and survivors to help educate the public on the virus and support advocacy efforts. Her press and media strategy has helped the organization receive more than 100 features in The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Vox, and others. Clare graduated with an Honors B.A. in Gender Studies from Skidmore College in 2015. While at Skidmore, Clare created and launched Show Your Sport, an educational, multimedia program to engage NCAA student-athletes in intersectional LGBTQ activism. Clare currently serves as an Alumni Representative on Skidmore College’s Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee.

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• How Gen Z is transforming LGBT+ advocacy

  By Clare Kenny · Thomson Reuters Foundation

  Oct. 15, 2020

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Freelance