The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Bonnie McEwan is an adjunct faculty member at Milano.  She is the president of Make Waves (www.makewavesnotnoise.com), a company that provides marketing and communications services to nonprofit organizations. Current clients include PolicyLink and Atlantic Philanthropies.

Immediately prior to opening Make Waves, McEwan spent six years as Executive Vice President of Douglas Gould and Company, a communications consultancy that works with public interest organizations. There she led the firm’s practice in Economic and Social Justice, working with clients such as the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the United Nations Population Fund and the Ford Foundation.

McEwan has held the top communications position with two national nonprofit organizations, Girl Scouts of the USA and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and has been on the adjunct faculty of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy for 12 years. During the 1997-98 academic year, McEwan served as Acting Chair of Milano’s Nonprofit Management program.

McEwan is a published author who has served on the boards of several nonprofit groups, notably the Empire State Pride Agenda, the largest statewide lesbian and gay rights organization in the country. Her awards include a national Silver Anvil from the Public Relations Society of America.  She is profiled in the leadership book, Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work, by Sally Helgesen. McEwan holds an MS degree in nonprofit management from The New School.