Kelley Chunn & Associates
Roxbury Center for Arts, Culture & Trade at Hibernian Hall
184 Dudley Street, Suite # 106
Boston, MA 02119
Phone: 617-427-0997 / Fax: 617-427-3997
Web Site: www.KelleyChunn.com, E-mail: kc4info@aol.com
Kelley Chunn is the principal of Kelley Chunn & Associates (KCA), an award winning
20 year old state certified (SOMWBA*) consultancy which specializes in multicultural
and cause-related public relations and marketing. KCA specialties include strategic
communications planning, advertising, branding, community outreach, audience
development, media relations, event planning and management and training.
In addition, Chunn has served as an Assistant Professor of public relations and marketing
at Northeastern University. She has worked as a news and public affairs writer and
producer at TV stations 4, 5, and 7 in Boston. In 1982, Chunn served as media consultant to the Nigerian government’s National Television Authority in West Africa. She also worked as a senior communications specialist for MassHousing (formerly the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency). She is a graduate of New York University and Simmons College School of Communications Management.
Her community and professional affiliations include The Office of Supplier Diversity Advisory Board for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, The Public Relations Society of America, The Black Public Relations Society. The National and Boston Associations of Black Journalists, The Ad Club of Greater Boston, The Museum of African-American History, the Greater New England Minority Purchasing Council, the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau, The Massachusetts Black Business Alliance and The Dudley Main Streets Initiative.
KCA was featured in the Spring 2006 issue of BusinessWeek’s Small Business
Magazine and BusinessWeek SMALLBIZ Online. Chunn, who speaks widely, has also
appeared on C-SPAN, and been quoted in a variety of publications including the Boston
Globe, Boston Business Journal, Boston Banner, the Wall Street Journal and PR Week. In 2008, readers of Women’s Business magazine voted KCA one of the top
10 public relations practitioners in greater Boston.
Partial Client List:
1991 – present: Department of Transportation, MassHousing, Emerson College Diversity Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard University affiliated Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, Roxbury Community College, The Boston Women’s Fund, New England Blacks in Philanthropy 2008 Conference, Boston Public Health Commission, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, National Institutes of Health, Mattapan, Dimock, Roxbury and Whittier Street Community Health Centers in Boston, WGBH-TV, The Boston Neighborhood Network (Community Access Cable Channels 9 & 23), City of Boston 2004/DNC, YWCA Boston, The Boston Public Library/Friends of the Dudley Branch Library, the Department of Neighborhood Development, Madison Park and Urban Edge Community Development Corporations, the Rose Kennedy Greenway Project for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, The Gillette Company”s United Way Campaign, Staples, Inc, The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, First New England Conference on Black Philanthropy 2000, the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Roxbury Film Festival, City of Boston Empowerment Zone, Albertson’s, Amistad Boston, The Commonwealth Institute’s Women of Ethnic Diversity Initiative, Institute of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts Historical Society, Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Fleet Boston Financial Women’s Entrepreneurial Connection, Dudley Main Streets, and the Roxbury Cultural Network.
1996-Present- Lecturer, Emerson College, Simmons College, Boston, MA, Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA, Pine Manor College, Boston, MA.
1991-1996 -Assistant Professor, Public Relations, Journalism Department
Northeastern University (NU).
1995 – NU Community Service Learning Grantee, Collaboration with
NU PR students and the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center.
1993 – Fellow, NU Center for Innovation in Urban Education.
1992 – NU Director, NU Public Relations Outreach Program for West Roxbury
High School students.
1986 – 1991 – Senior Communications Specialist, Public Information
Department, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, (MHFA), Boston, MA.
Served as MHFA media spokesperson; wrote/produced material for external and internal
distribution; conducted media and community outreach; managed marketing campaigns;
organized housing tours, groundbreakings and other special events for, or in conjunction
with Agency clients/constituents; coordinated paid advertising campaigns; managed
special projects including annual report, slide and trade show exhibits, seminars and
video productions; managed Public Information Department during supervisor’s leaves.
Publications (with translations): wrote and/ or edited and produced 1990 MHFA
Annual Report; series of brochures on MHFA’s homeownership programs; How To Buy
A House Guide; Home Improvement Loan Program Brochure; Mortgage Credit
Certificate Program Brochure; profiles of MHFA Borrowers; news releases; and flyers.
Video: wrote and supervised the production of: The Story of the Granite
Properties; “Preserving Low Income Housing In The Inner City.”
Advertisements (with translations): produced ads promoting MHFA home-ownership
programs and mortgage money as wells as Agency sponsored homeownership fairs.
Placements: The Boston Globe; the Boston Herald; regional and neighborhood
Newspapers; trade publications including the Boston Business Journal, Banker &
Tradesman; and radio and television interviews and announcements.
1986-1988 Consultant/Trainer,
-Medford Community Cablevision (MCC), Medford, MA
-Boston YWCA, Aswalos House Branch, Roxbury, MA.
Developed, organized and implemented community workshops and seminars in television
production skills and techniques; developed marketing materials; Wrote articles for MCC
newsletter, conducted media outreach; advised on media policy; managed marketing and
community outreach efforts.
1984 Associate Producer/Producer,
-WHDH-TV, Boston, MA (NBC affiliate).
-WCVB- TV, Boston, MA (ABC affiliate).
Produced series of “To Your Health Updates” and feature stories as part of WHDH’s
major “Here To Your Health” public affairs campaign. Co-produced following programs
as part of “To Your Health” campaign: hour long documentary on teenage pregnancy,
“Children Having Children”; hour documentary on hunger, “Empty Plates . . . Hunger at
Home”; two and a half hour live special exploring puberty, “My Body is Changing,” and
a follow-up program, “My Body is Changing, Part Two” ; an hour special exploring life changes, “New Beginnings”; and a 90 minute program exploring the fears and phobias of children, “Kids and Scary Feelings.”
Wrote/Produced documentary tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “The Dream.”
1982 – 1984 Media Consultancy, Nigerian TV Authority Lagos, Nigeria.
Advised Nigerian government on media policy; developed news policy; developed,
organized and implemented training program for producers, writers and reporters in video
production skills and techniques; taught at Jos TV College; produced news programming.
1980 -1982 Writer/Producer, WBZ-TV, Boston, MA (CBS affiliate).
Wrote copy for all news shows; developed and produced live shots from the field
including elections, the Boston Marathon, the Claus Von Bulow Trial, the Goodyear
Blimp, the Air traffic Controllers Strike; produced noon news and a public affairs
program called “Eyewitness News Conference” which earned an Emmy Award Nomination; represented station at special events.
1977-1979 Producer/Writer, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA (ABC affiliate).
Wrote and produced newscasts; helped cover major events including death of Pope John
Paul and the great Blizzard of 1978; represented station at special events.
1974 -1977 Associate Producer, WHDH-TV, Boston, MA (NBC affiliate).
Wrote and helped coordinate newscasts; co-produced weekly show, “Our City’s
History”; field produced election night coverage. Represented station at community
meetings; coordinated community media programs; co-produced special program,
“Kwanzaa: An African-American Christmas Celebration”: conducted community
surveys; co-edited employee newsletter.
Honors:
2011: Governor Deval Patrick appoints Kelley Chunn to the Office of Supplier Diversity
Advisory Board
2010: Governor Deval Patrick appoints Kelley Chunn to the Metropolitan
Area Planning Council
2008: Readers of Women’s Business magazine vote KCA one of the top
10 public relations practitioners in greater Boston.
2005: The Global Diversity Group Award for contributions to urban and minority
entrepreneurship.
2004: “Love Work Life Olympic Gold Medal Award” presented by Martha
Fields of Fields Associates, Inc.
1998: White House Recognition for the obesity prevention campaign
“Sisters Together. Move More. Eat Better.”
1987: Ohio State Award for TV documentary, “Empty Plates . . . Hunger at Home.”
1986: 3 Emmy Award Nominations for local Public Affairs Programming.
1981: Emmy Award Nominee for local Public Affairs Programming.
1977: Appointed Commissioner: Massachusetts Governor’s Commission
on the Status of Women.
Community Activities: Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau Multi-cultural
Committee, Community Research Advisory Board/ Harvard School of Public Health,
Charter Member of the Boston Coalition of Black Women, which addresses education,
social, economic and civic issues facing the African-American community.
Former Board Member: Boston Chamber of Commerce Women’s Network Advisory
Board, Ad Club of Greater Boston, Boston Coalition of Black Women, Boston Women’s
Fund, Boston YMCA, MA Association of Mental Health, Simmons Club, Ad Club
Foundation Community Programs Committee.
Fundraising Activities: In 2008, co-founded one of Boston’s first African American giving circles, the Circle of Blessings, which contributes to nonprofit organizations who focus on issues related to women and social justice; Co-chaired with Julie Crockford the
Boston Women’s Fund (BWF) 2007 Celebration of the 2000 Club which raised two million dollars through an extraordinary grassroots effort; chaired the 1997 BWF “Take A Stand” benefit which raised $100,000.00(net); coordinated the 1990 Nelson Mandela
USA Tour marketing activities on Boston’s Charles River Esplanade which raised $80,000.00.
Guest Speaker: 2011, Urban League “State of Black Boston” panelist for media workshop; 2011, Blacks in Government National Conference guest speaker; 2010, Pine Manor College; Moderator, Massachusetts State Office of Minority & Women’s Business Assistance 2010 Conference; Simmons College 2008 Conference, “The Power of Our Presence;” 2008, Third Sector New England; Massachusetts Annual Travel & Tourism Conference 2007; Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government 2007; Emerson College 2007; New England Regional Conference on Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities 2007; Harvard School of Public Health 2005; Tufts School of Health 2004; Public Relations Society of America 2004 International Conference, New York, New York; New England Regional Black Philanthropy Conference, Omni at Yale, 2004; National Black Public Relations Society 2002, 2003, 2004 Conventions; 2002, American University, Rome, Italy; Business for Social Responsibility; 1997 New England Nonprofit Exposition; National and Boston Association of Black Journalists; The Technical Development Corporation; Department of Communications at Simmons College; the Boston Public Relations Society; the Ad Club of Greater Boston; Fairleigh Dickinson University Corporate Communications Conference; and the Boston Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE).
Social Media: Moderator, Boston Association of Black Communicators List-Serve,
Contributor/Blogger for the Bay State Banner, African American newspaper of record for Massachusetts.
Education: Simmons College, Boston, MA, M.S. Communications Management,
New York University, New York, New York, B.A. in Journalism.
*SOMWBA: State Office of Minority and Women Owned Business Assistance now
the Office of Supplier Diversity