Max Burns, Founder and Chief Strategist
Max is an award-winning advocacy communicator and political columnist with over fifteen years of experience helping companies and issue campaigns achieve their messaging goals.
Max built a record of success as Communications Director for the international advocacy group Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and drove media around some of Change.org’s largest political petitions as U.S. Communications Manager. He also managed a portfolio of trade group and private sector clients as a Senior Associate at The Glover Park Group from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, Max served as a Public Policy Communications specialist in Facebook’s Washington, D.C. office, and as a Press Fellow to U.S. Congressman André Carson (D-IN).
In 2019, Max was named a Public Relations Society of America Exceptional Communicator Under 35 for his work to end immigrant family separation and mass incarceration as Head of Communications for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
Max holds a BA in Government and International Relations from George Mason University and an MA in Media and Public Affairs from The George Washington University.