Results

 Public Impact Media Consultants

Alan Klein, Partner and Communications Strategist

Public Impact Media Consultants was a full-service strategic communications firm that created innovative, attention-grabbing campaigns. To obtain results, the firm utilized a powerful combination of public relations strategies, from traditional media outreach to state-of-the-art digital tools.

Public Impact advanced the important work of clients that ranged from nonprofit social justice organizations to pioneering community-based businesses. The company represented best-selling authors, filmmakers, corporate leaders, activists and artists, plus many of the visionaries who stand on the frontlines of the LGBTQ+, racial and economic justice movements.

Origin Story
Public Impact Media Consultants was founded in 1990 in New York City by Alan Klein and Jay Blotcher. The two had first joined forces in ACT UP, the landmark direct-action AIDS activist group that achieved unprecedented advancements for people with HIV/AIDS, including legislative gains and access to life-saving medications.

Fellow HIV/AIDS activists and LGBTQ thought leaders observed Alan and Jay’s public relations successes and began asking the pair to share their strategies. It occurred to the activists that an increasing number of HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ community-based organizations needed a blueprint for promoting their missions, programs and public policies. And so Public Impact was formed.


GLAAD

Alan Klein, National Communications Director

In 1996, Alan Klein was recruited to join the staff of GLAAD, the nonprofit organization focused on LGBTQ advocacy and cultural change. He became the organization’s first national communications director and its primary spokesperson. 

Alan developed GLAAD’s public relations and strategic positioning plans; positioned the agency as the nation’s leading source of LGBTQ-oriented news and information; managed and supervised staff based in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and San Francisco; directed public response to breaking news and hot-button issues; and, served as the organization's primary spokesperson.


Anti-Violence Campaign logo

The Anti-Violence Campaign

Alan Klein, co-Creator and co-Executive Producer

In 1991, as violence against members of LGBTQ community continued to escalate, Alan Klein, Jay Blotcher, and Ken Woodard and put their heads together to figure out a way to stem the rising tide of vicious hate crimes.

With the support of Scott Robbe of Out In Film and Matt Foreman, executive director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, we produced The Anti-Violence Campaign — the first ever television public services announcement campaign aimed at ending the nation’s growing gay-bashing epidemic.

The Anti-Violence Campaign enlisted a celebrity-studded national council that included filmmakers John Waters, Gus Van Sant and Rob Epstein; actors Harvey Fierstein and Scott Thompson; musical sensations Lou Reed, Deee-Lite and Chaka Khan. The campaign was chaired by Susan Sarandon.


Past Clients

Alan Klein Communications (1993-2000) provided strategic communications campaigns to the enterprise and to leading social justice organizations nationwide.

Alan Klein Communications strengthened communication and improved workflow. The result: A finely-tuned, focused message designed to change minds and influence popular culture.

For three decades, Alan Klein harnessed the power of media to create finely-tuned, focused messaging designed to change minds. He has achieved victories for artists and activists, nonprofit organizations, c-suite executives, their missions, and brands. Alan's work has helped foster positives changes on America’s cultural landscape with stunning success.