Telling our stories.
Winning our movements.
At PoliSol, we believe there are many paths to winning in the media, whether it’s getting coverage for your event or launch, providing critical skills training to your communications staff and personnel, or developing messages, strategies and narratives to make real, sustainable change in the world. We help organizations win now and win the future.
/ˈpälee/: many
/sōl/: of the sun
PoliSol has served clients in politics, beauty and wellness, and business, and has shaped the most prolific movements of our time. We work to center storytelling that reflects the lived experiences of the most vulnerable who are often left out of media narratives and conversations about the future of our world. Our work prioritizes social justice and adding new voices to the media landscape. We aim to serve those who are willing to dream about a new future and to lift up people-centered solutions to our biggest challenges.
PoliSol illuminates multiple paths to securing coverage for organizations, campaigns and individuals looking to fundamentally shift the way our systems operate and our relationship to them. We are a media relations agency made up of driven professionals with the right experience, credentials, and connections to ensure your organization reaches its goals. Our approach enables you to tell your stories to reach the right audiences, while we work constantly to find opportunities to grow your media footprint. We offer workshops, training, pitching, messaging, and booking combined with brand strategies to help your organization win now and win the future.
Partners
We are thrilled to partner with leading organizations from across the spectrum looking to change the world with a clear vision for the future. From academia to socially conscious beauty to political campaigns, we tell your stories and get you the coverage you need to achieve your goals.
Services
PoliSol offers a range of services to support your communications team, launch new programs, or help you reach the right audience for your message.
Brand Workshops + Communications Planning
The message workshop package features a 2-hour messaging/branding session to sift through goals with your team while establishing narratives to pursue in the next 6 months, year and beyond that to five years. We craft high level strategies to help you plan your communications goals and plans for the year.
Media Training/Coaching
PoliSol offers seasoned trainers with experience here in the U.S. and abroad. We provide media training and coaching services to executives and those seeking to improve the quality and authenticity of their engagements with media. We provide workshops to help with the basics of communications, media planning, and strategic pitching and engagement tips.
Opinion Writing, Press Releases and Pitching
We identify target reporters for your leading campaigns and start the work of building relationships and your profile. Through reporter meetings, advances and storytelling we will work to develop national, local and target audience narrative for your work.
Rapid Response & Crisis Communications Support
Offered on a limited basis, PoliSol offers this service to help our clients devise strategies and crisis planning, and provide rapid response support that are inline with your goals and respond to media moments in real time.
PoliSol Public Affairs Lookbook
PoliSol offers booking services to individuals hoping to build their profile on broadcast platforms whether it’s television, radio, podcasts or online. We connect with producers on a week-to-week basis, pushing angles tied to the news cycle to increase exposure at an affordable monthly cost. We pitch a lookbook of experts to the media as a firm, rather than on a one-off basis to build relationships and familiarity with producers who are saturated with scattered pitches.
Media
From the Washington Post to local TV, our team has helped our partners reach a broad cross-section of audiences.
About Nina
Nina is a battle-tested communications strategist and storyteller with more than a fifteen years of experience in political communications.
Smith soft launched PoliSol in April 2020, quickly amassing a rolodex of impressive clients. The firm supported Stacey Abrams and the Fair Fight team during the 2020 elections and continues to support the current fight for voting rights to this day. She led media strategy for the introduction of the BREATHE Act for the Movement for Black Lives. The firm also worked to tell the stories of grassroots organizing during the 2020 election cycle including the Joy to the Polls roving concerts, worked with Vote.org to launch youth voting programs with Jaden Smith, and worked with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on key battleground races during the 2020 cycle.
Nina served as traveling press secretary for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign for president during the 2020 Democratic primary, where she coordinated on-the-ground interviews, briefed, and advised the candidate on messaging, on policies like The Douglass Plan, during debates, and in real time over the course of the campaign.
Prior to joining the Pete for America team, Nina was managing partner and co-owner at Megaphone Strategies -- a not-for-profit, women-owned social justice PR firm that launched Stacey Abrams' run for governor, helped elect Deb Haaland to Congress, trained frontline organizers with the Indigenous Environmental Network, Black Lives Matter Network and the Movement for Black Lives, and launched the She The People and The Collective PAC's organizations and brands during the 2018 cycle.
Smith has represented top officials at the local, state and national levels. She served as deputy press secretary in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Small Business Administration, and has worked as publicist for TheRoot.com. She also served as press secretary for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services under Ranking Committee Member Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). She spent five years working in Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s communications shop, later serving as chief spokeswoman during his second term. Born and raised in the D.C. metro area, she is a proud graduate of Morgan State University.
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