Mac Prichard is the president of Prichard Communications, a social change public relations firm in Portland, Oregon that serves foundations, non-profits, and public agencies.

Previously, Mac was communications director for Reclaiming Futures, a national juvenile justice reform project. He was also a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Human Services and other state agencies, a speechwriter and deputy legislative director for former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, and Portland City Hall communications director for Earl Blumenauer, now a Member of Congress. 

Before moving to Oregon, Mac was external affairs director at the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants and the first spokesman for Boston’s “Big Dig.”

He also operates Mac’s List, an online community that serves more than 80,000 people a month looking for rewarding, creative, and meaningful work. 

Mac earned a master’s in public administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s in political science at the University of Iowa.