Melea Seward (Communications) is a creative and communications strategist. She helps organizations and individual clients build and reach specific audiences, deploying her expertise in business development, content creation, and marketing communications to create unique and unexpected campaigns, tactics, and solutions. Her clients range from soloprenuers and small business owners to established nonprofit organizations, foundations and the occasional multinational corporation, including NBC, HBO, Shore Fire Media, Elixir Design and Girls for Gender Equity.
Melea has nearly two decades of experience in publishing, business development, and content strategy, including as Sociology Editor at W.W. Norton and Director of Outreach and Strategy for Designers and Books. As an adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology from 2005-2012, she taught classes to budding fashion designers on creating business plans, negotiating licensing deals, creating web content strategy and more. She has also guest lectured at Sarah Lawrence College, The New Museum, The Kings College, The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, Fordham University, the Freelancers Union, NY Cares, the American Society of Journalist and Authors, The Levin Institute–SUNY, NYU–Tisch, Digital Marketing