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Mary Hanley
Mary Hanley provides strategic, crisis and issues communications counsel and management to clients of Prism Public Affairs. She has extensive communications experience in environmental and conservation issues as well as biomedical and biotech research fields.
Hanley's communications work has spanned the public, non-profit and private sectors.
She served for more than a decade as the vice president of communications for The Wilderness Society, where she oversaw extensive communications and outreach campaigns, including energy-related matters, at the grassroots and national levels. Hanley managed message development and coalition building to support the Society's strategic education and legislative initiatives.
Hanley came to Prism after more than six years as the executive vice president of the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR). At NABR, she oversaw regulatory and legislative issues, and provided communications and crisis management counsel to the association's members. The NABR represents more than 300 biomedical research institutions – including academic, pharmaceutical, biotech, private health and professional medical associations.
Hanley, who served on the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative's Climate and Energy Facilitation Team, was communications director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Clinton administration. Previously, she was the director of communications for U.S. Secretary of Commerce Bill Daley, and public affairs director for the Deputy Secretary of State during the Carter administration. In each position, Hanley provided strategic communications counsel on specific policy goals, including message development and media relations support.
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