Honorary Advisory Board Member

Ken Sunshine

Iconic Public Relations Executive, Founder of Sunshine Sachs, Humanitarian and Civil Rights Advocate

Ken Sunshine founded Ken Sunshine Consultants (later to become Sunshine Sachs) in 1991, and over the past three decades the firm has represented clients ranging from leading corporations, nonprofits and unions, to some of the most prominent names in entertainment including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Natalie Portman. Sunshine Sachs has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Austin, and specializes in media relations, corporate image programs, crisis communications, reputation and issues management, consumer and lifestyle marketing, event promotion, and communications skills training.

Sunshine has lectured widely on public relations, politics, and image management, and has been a guest on many television news outlets. Sunshine’s archival materials, The Ken Sunshine Papers, are housed in the La Guardia and Wagner Archives at CUNY.

Sunshine currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, and the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Community Service Society, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, the Type Media Center and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC. He has also received many accolades for his work, which includes the City and State Responsible 100 Lifetime Achievement Award, and several honors for his leadership in the civil rights movement.

Ken Sunshine

Iconic Public Relations Executive, Founder of Sunshine Sachs, Humanitarian and Civil Rights Advocate