About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Brennan is a communications professional with more than two decades of experience and a proven track record of winning campaigns and guiding unions, organizations and foundations. She is known for her hands-on approach, strategy development and comprehensive campaign experience. Elizabeth has trained dozens of new communicators and is regularly sought after to provide strategic communications counsel.
Prior to launching her consultancy in 2022, Elizabeth was a Senior Vice President at the top-ranked PR-firm BerlinRosen and led their West Coast office. In that capacity she served as a trusted communications advisor for many organizations including The California Endowment, SEIU, the Fight for $15, the Teamsters, The James Irvine Foundation, UFCW Local 770, City Year Los Angeles, The Nature Conservancy, electoral campaigns and many others.
Before BerlinRosen, she led communications for Warehouse Workers United, a project of Change to Win. In her capacity as communications director, the campaign to expose harsh working conditions in the Walmart supply chain garnered consistent and high-level news coverage. She accompanied warehouse workers to Bentonville, the Walmart headquarters, and prepared workers for dozens and dozens of high-profile interviews in English and Spanish.
With academic and professional training as a newspaper journalist, Elizabeth’s first role in union communications was working at SEIU on the historic Justice for Janitors campaign. After leading communications during bargaining to secure family healthcare for union members on the West Coast and to organize janitors in Orange County, she went on to lead communications at the ACLU of Southern California, SEIU Local 721 and SEIU-UHW. At all three organizations she directed large teams of communicators and grew the departments’ capacity and focus by creating and implementing strategic plans and structure to support each organization.
Elizabeth now works as an independent consultant to foundations, unions, worker centers and other organizations focused on worker rights, climate change and more. She works part time for the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, an established nonprofit in California’s Inland Empire. She is the current president of the Parent Teacher Association at her son’s elementary school and she is a former member of the board of directors of the Theodore Payne Foundation, a California native plant nursery and education center in Los Angeles. She, her partner, Jake, a public high school history teacher, and their child live in Northeast Los Angeles.