Camille Elmore-Trummer (B.A. 2009, Communication and Comparative History of Ideas)
As a strategist and community builder, Camille Elmore-Trummer is committed to improving the lives of underserved communities. Elmore-Trummer’s professional background spans several industries including education management, public policy, and multimedia communications. Using a toolbox filled with a broad mix of strategies to advance social equity, she uses storytelling to help amplify voices, messages, and untold stories.

Currently, Elmore-Trummer works as an Account Manager at Brink Communications, a woman-owned communications and marketing firm based in Portland, Oregon. In her role at Brink, she provides strategic counsel and develops tailored tactics to help organizations meet their communications and policy goals.

Previously, Elmore-Trummer worked as a Communications Strategist for the City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, where she created communications products and strategies for climate action programs, including Portland’s first Home Energy Score program. Prior to that, she served as a senior policy advisor for Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, and had a track record of effectively negotiating with elected officials to develop progressive urban planning and sustainability policies. Before returning home to Portland, OR in 2015, Elmore-Trummer worked in education management and advanced a $4M federal grant directed by President Obama to implement post-secondary curriculums and retention strategies to underserved students of color in the south and west side of Chicago.

Elmore-Trummer received Bachelor of Art degrees in Communication and Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington in 2009. She received a Master of Science degree in Strategic Communication from Northwestern University in 2012.