GPG

Jenny Murphy

Vice President

Jenny Murphy is a Vice President of the California division of the Glover Park Group. She specializes in communications and media outreach strategies for a range of high-profile clients including HBO, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, Hewlett Foundation and the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute. A dynamic leader, Murphy has helped grow the firm’s entertainment-related business. At The Glover Park Group, Murphy works with Participant Productions on marketing strategies as well as planning for films’ accompanying social action campaigns. She was part of the communications team for the Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” She also works closely with the Elders, a group of world leaders including Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, and Kofi Annan, whose goal is to help find solutions to intractable international conflicts.

Currently, Murphy is working with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy on the roll out of their newly expanded mission to address unwanted pregnancy among teens and young adults. During her tenure at The Glover Park Group, she has also worked closely with non-profit clients including NARAL, the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, the Justice Project and the World Wildlife Fund.

Prior to joining The Glover Park Group in 2002, Murphy was an Account Executive for Fenton Communications, a progressive communications and advocacy firm, where she often worked on coalition-led environmental issues. Murphy developed and implemented communications strategies for a variety of clients, including Environmental Media Services, SeaWeb, and Center for an Accessible Society. In 2000, Murphy became a producer for SpeakOut.com, a political activism Web site, where she managed and designed content on a wide range of public policy and social issues. Murphy researched and wrote issue briefs to provide background information and pro and con arguments on a wide variety of public policy and social issues. She developed online communities, including message boards and interactive forums on public affairs and current events.

Prior to SpeakOut.com, Murphy served in the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington and provided media relations support for the president’s speeches. She began her communications career as an assistant in the foreign rights department of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Murphy assisted in foreign licensing of Knopf, Pantheon and Vintage titles and served as a liaison between editors, authors and foreign publishers.

Murphy graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College, with a B.A. in English literature.