I don't know many people who can say that they are doing meaningful work. The issues that matter most to me and that I am involved with in my private life: health, education and earning decent pay for work, are the exact same issues that clients at DG&Co. support and defend.

Joan Grangenois-Thomas

Media and Training Consultant

Joan brings over 20 years of experience to her position as a Consultant for Douglas Gould and Company. A former staff member, Joan credits her years at DG&Co. for helping her to find her ‘voice’ in matters of social and economic justice, education and gender equity. Her skills, enthusiasm and passion for these issues are contagious and we’re glad she’s back in our camp.

Joan worked on several signature projects during her tenure. She was responsible for monitoring and tracking activities for a major initiative for the Ford Foundation called For An Economy That Works for All. In addition, she organized and presented media and message training road shows for this initiative working with low-wage work activists and advocates around the country. Joan also worked with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and her voice was featured in a series of public service announcements for their national radio campaign.

As a solo practitioner, Joan has concentrated her communications skills in her local community. She executed a landscape assessment for Carver Center, the historically black community center in Port Chester, and garnered national media attention on behalf of community leaders for an African-American cemetery, which over the years, had fallen into disrepair. Joan's volunteer work is impressive, working closely with her local school district to chair an advisory committee on communications, and as co-chair of an organization that works with a coalition of social service, government and other community interest groups that encourage an "It Takes a Village" approach to reduce substance use and abuse in young people.

When she's not working to advance important causes, Joan showcases her stellar improvisational abilities, from her years in theatre, to do voiceover work for episodic commercials and infomercials. She also enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.

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