





Social Change Agency
Metropolitan Group integrates strategic and creative services to help our clients and the communities they serve build a just and sustainable world.
We are a full-service social change agency that crafts and integrates strategic and creative services. We build the capacity of change agents to leverage their power of voice, and we design, implement and evaluate direct efforts to create change.
We do this through three practice areas:
We work exclusively with clients who advance social change, predominantly in the following interconnected areas:
Client Stories Driving social change
Impacto Social Metropolitan Group
Our sister company in Mexico—Impacto Social Metropolitan Group (ISMG)—advances our commitment to global social justice. ISMG advances two key goals. First, it enables us to help build capacity and support the work of visionary civil society organizations across Mexico and the region. Second, it brings valuable perspective and expertise to benefit our clients in the United States and around the world.
Our two teams work closely in partnership to advance social change.


Meet Our Team

Yvonne Tengwall
executive vice president of operations and human resources | principal
Yvonne Tengwall has been named Metropolitan Group’s Chief Operating Officer and joined the ownership group and the governing board effective Jan. 1, 2021.
Yvonne has played a significant role in the redesign of MG’s operations, business planning, systems improvement, team recruitment, culture building, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) journey, social impact certification and organizational sustainability. She joined MG in 2013.

Monica Cho Brewer
senior director

Alexandra Nicholson
senior director

Ginelle Perez
senior associate

Jennifer Messenger
senior executive vice president

Rodolfo Córdova Alcaraz
executive vice president

Haim Malka
vice president

Nora Wedemeyer
senior project manager

Beth Strachan
executive vice president

Eric Friedenwald-Fishman
creative director | founder

Corinne Nakamura-Rybak
vice president of visual communication

Debra Clark
director

Maria Elena Campisteguy
senior executive vice president | principal

Matt Baer
project manager

Kiernan Doherty
executive vice president of client services

Kristin Gimbel
vice president

Kevin T. Kirkpatrick
senior executive vice president | principal

Isabel Courtelis
executive assistant

Chantelle Stewart
executive assistant

Alejandro Vélez Salas
senior director

Ashley Bloom Royal
senior director of project management

Yvonne Tengwall
executive vice president of operations and human resources | principal

Tovar Cerulli
senior director

Ximena Canseco Michel
associate

Tanja Miljević
special assistant to creative director/CEO

Shakirah Hill Taylor
vice president of digital strategy

Sean Garrison
art director

Ziara González-Nieves
senior associate

Paul Koehler
project manager

Rachel Harrison
vice president of finance

Olivia Stone
senior director

Rob Sassor
vice president

Nate Currie
designer

Kirsten Gunst
senior director

Ezra Milchman
senior executive vice president

Brit McInnes
operations coordinator

Eric Block
vice president

Sarah Dotlich
vice president of new business development

Al Machemehl
chief financial officer | principal

Billie Jean Bachmann
executive assistant

Fernanda Salazar Mejía
vice president

Garett Brennan
vice president

Jason Rambo
operations manager