01/31/2023

Jeanne Ryan Wolfson

FLARE Member-at-large

Jeanne Ryan Wolfson is a board member of FLARE and chairs its Marketing and Communications Committee. She is an Inaugural Lifetime Individual Member and a contributing author to FLARE Focus. Ms. Wolfson is also a founding member of East Wing Magazine, the first journalistic-driven publication dedicated to covering presidential first ladies, and has authored guest columns. 

Ms. Wolfson has a 40+ year career in strategic communications, specializing in public relations and marketing communications. She worked primarily in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, for corporations, businesses and foundations, providing strategic communication counsel and creative execution to CEOs, executive directors and other corporate leaders. Ms. Wolfson owns Intent Communication, a strategic communication consultancy, and has launched a new career as a children’s book author.

Ms. Wolfson holds a master’s degree in strategic communication and a bachelor’s degree in journalism, both from American University. She also holds specialized professional certificates in children’s book writing from the University of California at San Diego and social media management from Georgetown University, among others, in various disciplines of public relations practice.

She has served on many nonprofit boards in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she lives, and is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.