Pamela Livingston serves as the Vice President of Communications for International Justice Mission. IJM is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local governments to ensure victim rescue, to prosecute perpetrators and to strengthen the community and civic factors that promote functioning public justice systems. Before joining IJM in 2006, Ms. Livingston most recently worked for Hewlett Packard as the Global Marketing and Communications Director for its Emerging Market Solutions group. In this role, she used multimedia communications to increase global awareness of HP's philanthropic initiatives in rural villages in India and South Africa. Previously, Ms. Livingston was Vice President of International Public Relations with Hill & Knowlton, where she managed accounts with HP, Sony, Motorola, McKinsey & Company and Yahoo! Ms. Livingston helped found Hill & Knowlton's corporate social responsibility practice group and was the liaison for all of their pro bono work with non-profits. Ms. Livingston was the founding editor of a new economic research publication Capital Ideas for The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and worked as a Chicagoland newspaper reporter for several years. Ms. Livingston grew up in the Chicago area and studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Nottingham. As the Vice President of Communications for IJM, Ms. Livingston leads all branding, marketing, media relations and strategic communications initiatives for the organization. Such tasks include producing all print and video materials, managing international media, and launching new communications tools to better inform and educate donors and the public about modern-day slavery and the work of IJM. |