Zainab Chaudary

Zainab Chaudary, senior vice president at New Heights Communications, has spent the last decade crafting communications strategies for progressive, social change organizations. Her work has shifted public narratives and perceptions, achieved policy wins, built momentum around high profile litigation fights, promoted political thought leadership, and helped foundations innovate to improve how philanthropy serves the world.

Chaudary has coached and trained spokespeople around the country for organizations like MoveOn, CREDO, the ACLU, Indivisible, and numerous others. She also is deeply invested in developing communications talent amongst people of color and those from diverse backgrounds and elevating them to leadership positions through a responsive DE&I framework.

A graduate of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Germany, Chaudary is a 2022 fellow of Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Global Messaging Programme and an adjunct professor at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. She lives just outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband and two sons.