Public Impact Media Consultants

Alan Klein, Partner and Communications Strategist

Public Impact Media Consultants was a full-service strategic communications firm that created innovative, attention-grabbing campaigns. To obtain results, the firm utilized a powerful combination of public relations strategies, from traditional media outreach to state-of-the-art digital tools.

Public Impact advanced the important work of clients that ranged from nonprofit social justice organizations to pioneering community-based businesses. The company represented best-selling authors, filmmakers, corporate leaders, activists and artists, plus many of the visionaries who stand on the frontlines of the LGBTQ+, racial and economic justice movements.

Origin Story
Public Impact Media Consultants was founded in 1990 in New York City by Alan Klein and Jay Blotcher. The two had first joined forces in ACT UP, the landmark direct-action AIDS activist group that achieved unprecedented advancements for people with HIV/AIDS, including legislative gains and access to life-saving medications.

Fellow HIV/AIDS activists and LGBTQ thought leaders observed Alan and Jay’s public relations successes and began asking the pair to share their strategies. It occurred to the activists that an increasing number of HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ community-based organizations needed a blueprint for promoting their missions, programs and public policies. And so Public Impact was formed.


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