Charles Cinque Fulwood (born 1950, in South Carolina) is a media and communications

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who pioneered global media campaigns and the use of commercial marketing techniques for

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. Over a 15-year period beginning in the mid-1980s, he served as communications director for

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, and the

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. Fulwood was chief media

for

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, the 1988 world music tour underwritten by Reebok International to promote the

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on 5 continents. Fulwood is also credited (Haines, 1996) with designing the campaign strategy that led 18 states to pass legislation that exempts juveniles from the death penalty. As Director of Communications at NRDC, Fulwood built a strategic communications operation that included media relations, web site, publications, and a quarterly journal with a circulation of more than 700,000. One of his many innovations was creation of the International ECO-Awards, which issued more than 100 honors to advertising agencies, design shops, businesses and environmental groups for creativity in promoting appreciation of the environment. Fulwood's writing has been published in the

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, ''

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'', ''PR Quarterly'', the Boston ''Phoenix'', and '' Ramparts'' magazine. He has also ghost-written

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pieces published in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and the ''

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''. He has given invited lectures at the

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, and

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and has spoken at a variety of national and international conferences. Fulwood was born in 1950 in

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and moved to

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with his family in the early 1960s. After earning a bachelor's degree in

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, he worked for

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government, then held a series of communications positions with

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organizations in

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before moving to

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to work for

. In 1990, the Invisible Empire, Knights of the

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, the most violent of the various Klan factions, sued Fulwood and his client, the

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, for defamation of character after they exposed Klan activity within the

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Fire Department. The suit was settled in 1991 and resulted in four Klansmen being forced to resign from the Fire Department. Fulwood is a founding partner in MediaVision USA, a strategic communications firm, and specializes in

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communications,

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, and media campaigns. He is a former member of the teaching faculty at the

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program in Communications and Contemporary Society, where he and Margo Edmunds were co-instructors for a graduate course in Emergency and Risk Communications from 2008-2013. Fulwood also consulted on the online course in risk communication strategies for the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness. Fulwood currently resides in the Glover

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area. In November 2011, he was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission for

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, which represents the neighborhood and provides advice to the DC government on key public policy issues. CharlesFulwood

References

*C Fulwood. If You See Something, Say Something

*H. H. Haines, ''Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-74.'' Oxford University Press, 1996. *Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness. Risk Communication Strategies for Public Health Preparedness. https://web.archive.org/web/20070105215151/http://www.jhsph.edu/preparedness/training/online/riskcomm.html *A. Ramirez. The Media Business: Advertising; An Agency Makes Progress by Roughing it in a Field With Few Competitors: Environmental Issues. ''The New York Times'', August 8, 1995. *R. Smothers. Blacks Claim Victory in Georgia Suit on Fire Department Racism. ''The New York Times'', April 4, 1991. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fulwood, Charles 1950 births Living people American political writers American male non-fiction writers