Juli-anne Whitney

Ms. Whitney’s unique experience managing innovative campaigns in politics and the entertainment industry has garnered political wins, box office successes and numerous awards. For over a dozen years, she has advised candidates, executives and public figures on strategic policy initiatives, image development, crisis management and organizing.

During the 2006 election cycle, Ms. Whitney advised and managed congressional campaigns in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Florida providing communications, organization, research, policy and financial strategy. Working closely with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the state parties her success proved integral to the historic election victories for the Democratic Party.

Whether opening day, or Election Day, Ms. Whitney understands how to communicate to voters and consumers, alike. Ms. Whitney achieved campaign success in the film industry as Vice President of National Publicity and Special Projects at Fox Searchlight Pictures, where she coordinated campaigns for high-grossing features such as Napoleon Dynamite and 28 Days Later and award-winning films Sideways, In America and Garden State. At Universal Pictures, she worked on successful release campaigns for over a dozen films grossing over $100 million dollars each in domestic theatrical release and successful awards campaigns for Erin Brockovich, Billy Elliot, About a Boy and A Beautiful Mind. She also worked on a diverse slate at Miramax Films including Life is Beautiful, Cider House Rules, She’s All That, and Shakespeare In Love.

Prior to her work in the film industry, Ms. Whitney was an associate at the strategic communications firm Robinson Lerer & Montgomery where she worked with such clients as HBO, MTV, VH-1, AOL and Viacom. She began her political career in New Jersey working on state legislative campaigns and as a campaign aide to former U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) on his Congressional and US Senate campaigns.

Throughout her career, Ms. Whitney has designed innovative word-of-mouth, grassroots and marketing campaigns that target traditional and genre audiences. Important elements are the public and private partnerships that she develops with corporate, political and non-profit establishments for strategic endorsements, outreach, events and advertising, including local and national organized labor groups; public and private organizations including New America Foundation, Planned Parenthood, Women’s Sports Foundation, Special Olympics, Center for Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Public Theater, Kinsey Institute, Rockefeller Center, MoMA, NY, LA and Brooklyn Diocese, Planned Parenthood and National 4-H, Anti-Defamation League, Hadassah, National Resources Defense Council, the White House, United Nations, Department of Education, Refugees International, Mayor’s Office of Film & Television, National Institute for Mental Health, American Ballet Theater, Actor’s Equity, and Film Society of Lincoln Center, and media including The New Yorker, Premiere Magazine, In Style Magazine, Us Weekly, New York Times, among others.

Ms. Whitney graduated from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.