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Camino PR management has a proven history of sparking positive social change. They lead a team of innovative, collaborative thinkers who are committed to using communications strategies to further non profit goals.
Elizabeth Toledo is the President of Camino Public Relations, and is the former Vice President - Communications for Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She has more than twenty years of leadership in non profit and advocacy communications, and is a prominent national speaker. Read More»
Loretta Kane is a partner at Camino Public Relations. She brings more than twenty years of experience in non profit communications, management, and advocacy. She has trained thousands of local leaders in media relations, strategic communications, and organizing strategies.Read More.»
Pablo Toledo is an accomplished media and communications professional specializing in storytelling through visual communications strategies. A graduate from USC School of Cinematic Arts, his background is rooted in visual communication. Read More»
Advisory Board
Camino PR is proud to work with some of the nation’s leading voices in strategic communications. Some of our committee members serve as independent contractors for Camino PR; others provide technical expertise, insight and advice about communications. All of the Advisory Committee members help Camino PR maintain a creative, culturally relevant, and diverse perspective when approaching communications challenges. Click Here For Partial List»
Ms. Toledo continues to spearhead national, strategic communications initiatives for Planned Parenthood, the largest voluntary family planning organization world-wide. Her unique approach of weaving media strategies, marketing strategies, message development and visual campaigns has earned her wide praise, including being called “savvy” by PR Week. She has been a leading voice of opinion and analysis for nearly two decades. She has appeared hundreds of times on the national media scene, including such top rated programs as CNN’s Anderson Cooper, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, Air America, and many additional broadcast and print outlets. She has been profiled by Ms. Magazine and National Public Radio, and has successfully generated leadership profiles for organizational leaders in such outlets as Vogue, Glamour, the Washington Post and the New York Times. She was featured in a front page story and photo on reproductive health activism in the San Francisco Chronicle and in a front page photo on Supreme Court issues in the New York Times.
Ms. Toledo has a unique ability to report on complex legal and social issues in a straightforward and accessible manner. She spearheaded communications plans for court initiatives, including Supreme Court judicial nominations as well as for major recent Supreme Court decisions related to women’s health. She has appeared on national news programs to interpret the impact of sexual discrimination laws in the workplace after circuit court and Supreme Court decisions were issued. She has conducted national live television remote interviews for breaking stories, such as on the day that Clarence Thomas was confirmed for the Supreme Court.
Ms. Toledo has also interviewed some of the nation’s top political and entertainment figures for multimedia projects. Interviewees include Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Rep Maxine Waters, Rep Patricia Schroeder, Sarah Jessica Parker, and others.
She has strategized and negotiated effectively with the nation’s top business and government leaders. She has met with senior executives from the auto industry to assist their efforts in workplace equity, including the President of Ford Motor Company and senior officials from Mitsubishi. She met with top State Department officials on the human rights abuses of women in Afghanistan. She met with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and senior officials from the FBI on the potential impact of federal hate crimes legislation. She met with Vice President Al Gore on women’s equity concerns.
Ms. Toledo has a long history of leadership in grassroots advocacy, including being a leading national organizer of the 2004 March for Women’s Lives, which was the largest march and rally in United States history and which generated massive worldwide media coverage. She has also held a leadership role in many political campaigns on issues including affirmative action, electoral battles, reproductive health care, and economic justice. She was a plaintiff in the legal case that re-shaped athletic opportunities for women in California’s public colleges.
Ms. Toledo has been a frequent speaker on campuses and in such outlets as the Commonwealth Club. Her speaking tour, titled “Everyday Acts of Rebellion”, has reached over 50 campuses nationwide. Ms. Toledo began her communications career as the teenage columnist for the Tucson Citizen, a Gannett paper.
Kane’s work includes coordinating campaign communications for the public service division of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the the largest labor union in the United States. She previously worked for SEIU as the communications director of an innovative, multi-union international campaign to improve services and jobs in the “multi-service” industry. Kane also served as communications director for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the most influential reproductive rights organization in the country, and as vice president at the National Organization for Women (NOW). During her 13-year tenure with NOW, Kane improved communications with 500 chapters, including designing and implementing an innovative system to facilitate two-way communications with supporters nationwide.
Kane is among the nation’s most experienced event and campaign strategists. She is an accomplished speechwriter and media writer, and has a strong history of public speaking. She is an experienced trainer who has conducted leadership, organizing, and community relations training sessions for thousands of community activists. Kane also is a skilled business professional with more than 20 years of management experience. As a market trainer for a Fortune 500 company, she developed and implemented the entry-level management and crew training programs for 21 restaurants, managed a staff of 125 people, and was responsible for annual net sales of $1.7 million.
In 2001 he wrote, directed and produced Runnin’ At Midnite, a feature film about youth and midnight basketball. This film played in cities such as Austin, New York, San Francisco, Palm Springs, and Los Angeles, and most recently, in Oaxaca, Mexico. Runnin’ At Midnite’s success continues to this day, being available nationally on Netflicks and various Blockbuster retail outlets.
In addition to feature film work, Toledo produces and directs broadcast commercials for local and national entities, having worked with clients such as the National Organization for Women (NOW), and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). In addition, several political campaigns and community organizations have enlisted his directorial and communication services for their marketing and fund-raising efforts.
In 2002 he was awarded the Tucson Pima Arts Council Media Arts Fellowship and was named to the Arizona Artists Roster. In 2003 he was commissioned as a Repertory Director at National Association of Latino Independent Producer’s First Annual Producer’s Academy. He has spoken at numerous national conferences and local workshops about filmmaking and social commentary in cinema.
Most recently he served as Lead Artist and Director of Film and Digital Arts Education at Venice Arts, and served as Program Manager for the Institute For Photographic Empowerment, an online project between USC Annenberg School of Communication and Venice Arts to help support and promote the field of participant produced documentary photography.
Also a committed educator, Pablo served as adjunct faculty in the School of Media Arts at the University of Arizona. He has lectured at numerous educational institutions, such as University of Southern California, The New School In Los Angeles, and Eastern Michigan University. In 2002 he founded the New Media Project, a federally funded program by which film and video skills are taught to highly at-risk youth.
He currently resides in Manhattan and is a regular fixture at Cafe Grumpy.
Eugene Ahn, Software and media architect and expert in web 2.0 and social networking technologies. Eugene is the principal of wigglefish, a communications design and publishing services studio. He develops and produces information experiences using digital media and the web.
Carol Moseley Braun, President/CEO, Ambassador Organics (a line of organic food products), former U.S. Senator from Illinois, former Ambassador to New Zealand, and former candidate for president of the United States. Senator Braun was the first African American woman to be elected to the United States Senate and was the sole African American in the Senate from 1993 to 1999. She has devoted much of her professional and personal life to fighting for social justice. http://www.ambassadororganics.com
Helen Grieco, MSW, Director of the She Institute, President and Founder, Brave People, and an expert on safety and adolescent development. Helen served in an executive capacity with the National Organization for Women in California for nearly two decades.
Lynn Warshafsky, co-founder of Venice Arts: In the Neighborhoods, a Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communications, and a co–founder of the USC Institute for Photographic Empowerment. In 2002 she was selected to participate in the LA County Arts Commission’s Arts Leadership Initiative; in 2003, she received a Fellowship from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and also participated in Stanford’s summer residency Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders.
