Advocacy Marketing Group

Corri Planck

Corri Planck is a partner with the Advocacy Marketing Group. She previously served for four years as the deputy executive director for Family Pride, the only national organization dedicated to serving gay and lesbian parents and their families. In this capacity, Planck was responsible for directing all public policy, advocacy, communications and media relations efforts for the organization. She is an editorial board member and family policy editor for the Journal of GLBT Family Studies.

Previously, Planck served as a senior aide and media advisor to California State Assemblymember Christine Kehoe and as a senior account executive with the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton.

At the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Planck was the volunteer media director/strategist for the Convention’s Gay & Lesbian Caucus. Earlier that year, she served as the communications director for the Millennium March on Washington, the fourth national March on Washington for gay and lesbian civil rights.

Prior to that, she was the media relations manager for the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, the world’s oldest and largest organization of its kind. In this capacity, she directed media advocacy in support of gay and lesbian civil rights, health and youth issues. Before arriving at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Planck was the editor of the Southern California Gay & Lesbian Times.

Planck also served as a residence counselor and teacher at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities from 1991-1994.

In 1998, Planck was appointed by the West Hollywood City Council to serve on the City’s Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board. She was honored with two GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding Commentary and Outstanding Journalist in 1996, and in 1994, she was named “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.”

Planck obtained her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University and completed her master’s degree in education at the University of Redlands.

Planck was born and raised in Indiana. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner and their two children.