Mac Prichard, Founder and Principal

Mac Prichard is an experienced and talented public relations professional who has counseled foundations, non-profits, and public officials across the United States. Before forming Prichard Communications, Mac worked as communications director of Reclaiming Futures, an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that improves drug and alcohol treatment for teens in juvenile court. Previously, Mac served as a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Human Services, a speechwriter and deputy legislative director for former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber, and Portland City Hall communications director for Earl Blumenauer, now a Member of Congress.

 

Prior to moving to Oregon in 1991, Mac lived in Massachusetts where he was legislative and media relations director for the state Office for Refugees and Immigrants, the first public information officer for Boston's "Big Dig," and a researcher in former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy's first Congressional campaign. Previously in Boston as a staff person with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Mac helped organize and lead four Congressional fact-finding trips to Central America. Mac was also a senior researcher at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a non-partisan human rights group in Washington, DC, that monitors US-Latin American policy.

 

In addition to his professional work, Mac is a recognized community leader. He is currently a vice chair of the Oregon Bus Project, a former president of the Oregon Harvard Club, and served on the board of the Richmond Neighborhood Association. Mac is a past chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon's finance committee, served on the Oregon finance committees of three presidential campaigns, and was an elected delegate from Oregon's Third Congressional District to the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions.

 

Mac has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Iowa.