Jennifer Messenger Heilbronner
Vice President
Jennifer draws on her experience working with the private, public and nonprofit sectors to develop strategic programs that achieve social impact and organizational success. She has expertise in marketing communication, branding, campaign design and management, writing and editing, media relations, and public education and involvement. For the past 11 years of her 17-year career she has focused on health communication and leads MG’s public health focus area, providing social marketing and other services to a variety of health-related nonprofits and public sector clients.
Jennifer has worked on a variety of projects with the Oregon Public Health Division and is currently serving as project manager of a five-year earned media and public will-building strategy effort for the Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program. She has guided campaigns to reduce the risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome babies being born to college-aged women and to promote employment of people with disabilities. Her other health-related work ranges from messaging platforms for health policy reform advocates to campaigns to prevent death by heroin overdose. She has presented at the Social Marketing in Public Health and American Public Health Association conferences.
Jennifer has also developed and implemented branding and marketing strategies for foundations such as The Saint Paul Foundation and Minnesota Community Foundation and other nonprofits such as Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. She has managed media relations for public, private and nonprofit organizations ranging from PacifiCorp to Travel Oregon to leading green developer Gerding Edlen Development. She also has expertise in sponsorship and public-private partnership development, product/service launches, and strategic planning.
As a community volunteer, Jennifer works with Girls Inc. of NW Oregon, a nonprofit that helps all girls be smart, strong and bold through school-based education, mentoring and advocacy. She also helps raise resources for her neighborhood elementary school and is a past board member of the Oregon Business Leadership Network as well as Hands On Greater Portland, which promotes volunteerism by providing a variety of meaningful service and leadership opportunities.
…it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
