Chrissy Russillo

Chrissy Russillo, a senior vice president in GMMB’s Seattle office, has more than 15 years of media relations, coalition building, event organizing and marketing experience. She joined GMMB in 2000.

Chrissy supports advocacy efforts for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s U.S. Program initiatives. GMMB provides strategic communications, media relations and advocacy counsel to the foundation in support of its efforts to increase U.S. high school graduation and college-preparedness rates, ensure at-risk families in the Pacific Northwest achieve self-sufficiency, and promote and sustain public access to technology in libraries.

Chrissy also supports work on behalf of the Washington State Department of Health Tobacco Prevention and Control Program, which encourages youth advocacy against the tobacco industry, promotes the state’s Quit Line and raises awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke.

Chrissy helped lead an award-winning multimedia recruitment campaign for AmeriCorps, the United States’ national service program. She also led efforts to organize National Adoption Day 2002, a celebration in which courts across the nation opened on a Saturday to finalize more than 3,100 adoptions from foster care.

Prior to joining GMMB, Chrissy served as a communications specialist for public hospitals in Washington state. She has also edited for newspapers and magazines as diverse as the Prague Post, Anchorage Times and WindSurfing magazine.