Team

ECA is YOUR Team

ECA is one of the most effective strategic communications SWAT teams addressing complex issues. Each team member has numerous awards, accomplishments and global connections in our respective fields.

The team has known and worked with each other for years. We love successes and helping our clients reach their goals. We enjoy what we do, strive to know more and challenge ourselves to be thought leaders in the communications and transformational social marketing world. Meet our team and you’ll see how ECA has changed the conversation on more issues than most.

Meet the Team

ANDREA J. GRANT (AJ)
President, Environmental Communications Associates, Inc.

Ms. Grant specializes in communicating complex and sensitive issues to the public. Drawing from her combined background in communications and environmental science, AJ helps clients find innovative ways to reach the public and transform environmental and sustainability issues through strategic initiatives and reframing communications. Ms. Grant ́s expertise includes designing and orchestrating communication strategies on national and global issues, especially highly contentious matters. She
is well respected by both environmental and business communities nationwide providing a strong foundation and network for creatively resolving environmental issues.

She has also written highly acclaimed curriculums on environmentally related topics for universities, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools. In creating the Big Green Company, Inc.
she set out to create a powerful means to positively influence today’s youth through multimedia entertainment and education. The company’s core brand, Big Green Rabbit, is considered the first major success in packaging environmental and health topics for families using multimedia to reach tens of millions across the country on television and through a large on-line and social presence. Big Green Rabbit won 4 EMMYS, 2 WEBBY Awards, Parents Choice awards and has 85 million hits on YouTube. The goal was to change behaviors on how consumers treat themselves and the world around them —Healthy Bodies, healthy planet.

AJ gained national recognition as a speaker at international conferences such as “Globe International Conference on Business and the Environment” (Vancouver), “The Environment and The Media,” “Corporate Conscience Strategies,” “Greening the Bottom Line,” “Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI),” and others.

Recent Boards include: Dean’s Advisory Board for University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability, Advisory Board for University of Colorado Masters in Environment program, National Parks Foundation Board, National Outdoor Leadership School, Alaska Conservation Foundation, Western Resource Advocates, and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado.

AVERILL DOERING
Strategic Marketing Director

Averill brings her unique perspective and strategic insight to our clients through her combined background in economics, marketing and environmental conservation. After studying Economics at Dartmouth College, she began her career as a brand strategist for the leading global firm, Interbrand. There she managed and helped to refresh iconic global brands such as AT&T, ConAgra and Xerox.

But it was while she was working on the GE Ecomagination project (that sought to promote the company’s more ecologically sound products) that she became fascinated with sustainable business. Averill soon took this newfound passion to J.D. Power and Associates where she spearheaded proprietary research on consumer opinions toward climate change. Averill later joined Conservation International as Director of Corporate Partnerships, focusing on the agricultural and extractive sectors that were designed to improve business and supply chain practices. In this role she led the communications for Starbucks’ Sustainable and Ethical Coffee Sourcing programs.

Averill specializes in market and target audience insights, brand positioning and campaign strategies and is our resident expert in creating simple visuals for just about any complex concept. Averill brings her sharp insights and an uncanny ability to make connections on issues that others miss. She also leads ECA’s marketing insights activities.

PATRICIA NORRIS MALARKEY
Digital & Learning Strategy Director

Patricia leads ECA’s digital and learning strategy for clients. She brings more than twenty years of experience translating communications and learning into the digital world. Her specialties include strategic program management, digital identity and communications, audience research, and partnership development. At National Geographic, Patricia directed digital interactive strategy and served as executive producer for Education on-line. She led the multimillion-dollar bottom-up development of an award-winning suite of next-generation learning technologies, digital content and channels, social media and marketing, and user and market insights, expanding the program more than ten-fold. Her work connected the Society’s high-profile research, media, and talent–and its iconic brand–with tens of millions around the world.

Patricia has worked with senior leadership at companies, nonprofit organizations and investment groups, in media, technology, the environment, education, and healthcare industries. She has managed major funding relationships, programs, and partnerships with leading companies, organizations, and government agencies, including Verizon, Google, Oracle, GE, Dawn/P&G, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and NOAA. She has been a key team member in creating and launching citizen science initiatives, including BioBlitz, a ten-year program with the National Park Service, and The Great Nature Project, a worldwide social media crowdsourcing campaign that engaged Michelle Obama, Selena Gomez, Joe Jonas, and people from over 100 countries, and set two Guinness World Records. She has presented at national and international conferences and led innovation teams on digital communications and learning. Patricia earned an Ed.M. at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s prestigious Technology, Innovation & Education (TIE) program and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

KIM FULLER
Senior PR/Media Relations Associate

Kim is a world class media relations professional with high level public relations credentials who is called in during the nation’s most high profile events. Her senior media relations capabilities have been brought in to execute strategies for the Executive Officer of the President at The White House and during almost every natural and man-made disaster over the past thirty years. This included the TWA 800 Crash investigation hearings; the BP Oil Spill, Hurricanes Harvey and Katrina, and Superstorm Sandy. Kim is instrumental in understanding how to reframe issues and execute media plans quickly around unexpected events as well as maintaining freshness in long term public relations. She has been instrumental in changing public perception and introducing the term disaster prevention and resistance into the American lexicon starting with FEMA’s building disaster-resistant communities. The term now morphed into a global term “resiliency.”

Kim serves as point person coordinating multimillion dollar public awareness campaigns with some of the largest public relations firms. Her media contacts abound and are documented with over 6,000 contacts in her personal mobile phone. She can coordinate with agility and ease and can change focus on a dime as well as implement long term strategies. She is a phone call or text away from high level media personalities, producers and bookers around the Globe having been to over 40 countries with The President of the United States and other government and non-governmental agency officials. Her clients have included the Executive Office of the President at the White House, Federal Emergency Management Agency, former FEMA Director James Lee Witt, International Code Council, government officials, and leading experts in weather and other issues. She has served as chief spokesperson and has placed clients in a number of live appearances on major networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Nightline and CNN, morning shows and more.

When the usual communications approach just won’t cut it…

It’s true, we’re not your traditional PR firm. You need a SWAT team of world class problem solvers first and foremost — then a well oiled machine for implementation.

Consider us. We’re a rare hybrid.