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Lisa Bushey joined Qorvis Communications in 2008 as a managing director to help lead a global corporate communications campaign for Beam Global Spirits & Wine, the fourth largest premium spirits company in the world, and to oversee other corporate and association accounts at Qorvis. She previously served as vice president at Widmeyer Communications, where she led two practice areas, corporate and higher education. She brings more than 20 years of communications experience in corporate, consulting, university and governmental environments.

Pertinent Background & Relationships

• Bushey’s corporate experience includes strategic communications counsel for the world’s largest beverage company in support of its corporate social responsibility and environmental initiatives. For the global company that serves consumers in more than 200 countries, Bushey and her team provided in-depth environmental scanning, technical analysis and issues counsel to support U.S. and international communications needs. In this role, she also conducted targeted analyses that aided system-wide policy review and reformulation.
• For a major petrochemicals concern, Bushey led an interdisciplinary team that provided policy analysis and media monitoring responsive to a company’s U.S. external affairs requirements. In her support of the company’s issues management function, Bushey and her team provided ongoing analysis and authored a quarterly U.S. bulletin.
• Bushey is a seasoned writer who has developed data-driven communications materials and external messaging documents on behalf of a wide array of clients. A limited sampling includes a national climate action initiative; The National Strategy for Financial Literacy on behalf of the U.S. Department of the Treasury; and a federal government education initiative on bullying prevention entitled Stop Bullying Now! She has also produced materials for an array of education clients, including: the College Board; a national math-science initiative; the Humanitarian Aid Foundation; and the Great Lakes Center for Educational Research and Practice.
• Bushey also has served as Director of Communications for The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education (GW/CEEE) in support of education reform and school improvement initiatives relevant to English language learners.
• Prior to her work at GW/CEEE, Bushey was director of outreach for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and in this role translated and disseminated AERA research findings among various constituencies, to include policymakers, practitioners, reporters and educational researchers.
• As an independent consultant for the Center on Education Policy, Bushey conducted a comprehensive environmental scan of 20 high-profile national education organizations to inform the Center’s public education advocacy agenda.
• Bushey has presented at various local and national educational conferences and has served as a judge for a national journalism award for education reporting.

Education

Bushey graduated from Dickinson College with a B.A. degree in English and History and has completed all coursework toward the M.A. in Journalism (Public Relations) at the University of Maryland, College Park.