Senior Management
Mary Fifield
Vice ChairMs. Fifield, a former journalist and television news producer, has an extensive background in public policy, politics, government, and public relations. She was producer of CBS's Face the Nation and Nightwatch with Charlie Rose, and also produced headline programming at other major American television networks, including 20/20 and World News Tonight for ABC News and Nightly News for NBC.
Following network assignments in Washington, D.C., Manhattan, and Houston, Ms. Fifield spent three years in Rome. She has extensive working relationships with broadcast and print journalists and commentators locally and nationally.
Ms. Fifield began her career as Massachusetts press secretary for presidential candidate George McGovern, subsequently moving into the public sector as press secretary for Governor Michael Dukakis before returning to politics as an assistant press secretary to presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. Following several years of public and political service, Ms. Fifield was hired by Roone Arledge as Director of Public Relations for the re-vamped ABC News, where she devised and oversaw public introduction of World News Tonight, 20/20, Nightline, and This Week With David Brinkley.
Ms. Fifield was Director of Government and External Affairs for Boston's Artery Business Committee-an organization of Boston's top 100 CEOs who supported the completion of the $15.6 billion "Big Dig," the largest public works project in the U.S.-for several years prior to joining ML Strategies, the public policy subsidiary of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., where she developed and managed crisis communications strategies for that firm's clients. She formed Mary Fifield Associates, a 20-person strategic communications firm, in 1995.
In addition to her work with HRiA, Ms. Fifield is the recent past president of the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, and a current member of the board of the ACLU of Massachusetts.
