Jennifer Amdur Spitz

Jennifer Amdur Spitz is principal of Amdur Spitz & Associates, Inc., which she founded in 1992. Jennifer leads all program development and marketing communications projects for this national agency and works with clients on strategic direction and planning. She attends to each project personally and assembles custom-tailored project teams of seasoned professionals to accomplish specific client goals. Jennifer has utilized her keen marketing, non-profit management and entrepreneurial skills to design and develop new non-profit organizations or programs within existing ones and to develop award-winning integrated marketing communications campaigns for clients.

Prior to starting the agency, Jennifer worked nine years in government, corporate and nonprofit communications. She held the following positions: Chief, Office of Communications for the Illinois Department of Public Aid, 1988 - 1992; Account Executive in consumer marketing at Burson-Marsteller, Chicago; and Director of Communications and Development at the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities. She began her career in public relations, working with several nonprofit arts organizations.