Janet Dickerson (she/her)

Collaborator & Co-Founder at Human Impact Partners

Janet is the co-founder of Human Impact Solutions, a boutique PR and Creative Branding firm. She is a seasoned communications and media relations expert with more than a decade of experience implementing multi-channel PR campaigns, strategic sponsorships, influencer engagement, crisis and rapid response strategies, creative content development, and more. She also specializes in event and video production, editorial writing, and diverse/multicultural outreach.

Janet began her career in politics, serving as Press Officer for now-U.S. Senator Cory Booker while he was Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. In 2009, she was the Deputy Press Secretary to former New York City Comptroller William Thompson during his near-upset mayoral campaign against Michael Bloomberg. Dickerson then ventured into the non-profit/advocacy sector by becoming Press Secretary for national research and action institute PolicyLink.

Janet graduated from Temple University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism. Born and raised in the New York City-area, she now resides in New Jersey.

Current and former clients include: Ava DuVernay, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA), Blackout for Human Rights, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Women's Equality Center, PolicyLink, Decolonizing Wealth, Question Bridge, New York Correctional Association, Schott Foundation for Public Education, and Harry Belafonte's social justice organization Sankofa.