
	WHO WE ARE Margaret Suzor Dunning Chief Strategy Officer Margaret Dunning, a partner in the firm, is focused on strategy development and ensuring integration of agency services. Dunning has extensive experience in issues management, crisis communications, media strategy and long term client positioning. She has worked closely with Pearson Education, Fannie Mae, the College Board, Texas Instruments, the Association of American Publishers, Lumina Foundation for Education and First Marblehead, as well as a variety of other corporate, government, nonprofit and foundation clients. Prior to joining Widmeyer, Dunning was vice president and director of communications for Public Agenda, a New York-based nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization. During her tenure, Public Agenda grew in both size and stature, becoming for policymakers and the media a trusted source of public opinion research. Public Agenda Online, an innovative Web service, was created and launched with Dunning’s assistance and is now universally praised by the media and issue experts for its in-depth, nonpartisan content. Dunning regularly presented Public Agenda’s research to audiences across the country and briefed appropriate Members of Congress. Dunning also has experience in the public service advertising world, having worked for The Advertising Council on campaigns ranging from drunk driving awareness and Head Start to forest fire prevention with the Ad Council’s oldest icon, Smokey Bear. On the broadcast front, Dunning headed up the television production company responsible for “The McLaughlin Group” and “John McLaughlin’s One on One,” which are seen on NBC and PBS stations nationwide, as well as “McLaughlin,” one of CNBC’s first evening programs. During the Reagan Administration, Dunning worked in the Office of Management and Budget, after having been a Capitol Hill staffer for a Member of the House Ways and Means Committee. She is a graduate of Trinity College where a senior internship at the Republican National Committee turned into a first job. She is a member of the Board of Directors for The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum and until recently was a member of the Levine School of Music’s Board of Trustees. Dunning is an advisor to the American Red Cross’ Office of Public Affairs and held a similar role for the RAND Corporation’s Office of External Affairs. One of her most treasured roles is serving as a Regional Panel judge for the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.

WHO WE ARE

Margaret Suzor Dunning

Chief Strategy Officer

Margaret Dunning, a partner in the firm, is focused on strategy development and ensuring integration of agency services. Dunning has extensive experience in issues management, crisis communications, media strategy and long term client positioning. She has worked closely with Pearson Education, Fannie Mae, the College Board, Texas Instruments, the Association of American Publishers, Lumina Foundation for Education and First Marblehead, as well as a variety of other corporate, government, nonprofit and foundation clients.

Prior to joining Widmeyer, Dunning was vice president and director of communications for Public Agenda, a New York-based nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization. During her tenure, Public Agenda grew in both size and stature, becoming for policymakers and the media a trusted source of public opinion research. Public Agenda Online, an innovative Web service, was created and launched with Dunning’s assistance and is now universally praised by the media and issue experts for its in-depth, nonpartisan content. Dunning regularly presented Public Agenda’s research to audiences across the country and briefed appropriate Members of Congress.

Dunning also has experience in the public service advertising world, having worked for The Advertising Council on campaigns ranging from drunk driving awareness and Head Start to forest fire prevention with the Ad Council’s oldest icon, Smokey Bear. On the broadcast front, Dunning headed up the television production company responsible for “The McLaughlin Group” and “John McLaughlin’s One on One,” which are seen on NBC and PBS stations nationwide, as well as “McLaughlin,” one of CNBC’s first evening programs.

During the Reagan Administration, Dunning worked in the Office of Management and Budget, after having been a Capitol Hill staffer for a Member of the House Ways and Means Committee. She is a graduate of Trinity College where a senior internship at the Republican National Committee turned into a first job. She is a member of the Board of Directors for The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum and until recently was a member of the Levine School of Music’s Board of Trustees. Dunning is an advisor to the American Red Cross’ Office of Public Affairs and held a similar role for the RAND Corporation’s Office of External Affairs. One of her most treasured roles is serving as a Regional Panel judge for the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.