Who We Are

Jacqueline Lalley Communications is a team of designers, writers, editors, and trainers—but we’re also artists, poets, techies, and comedians. Together we help nonprofits, agencies, businesses, and individuals accomplish missions of positive change. We’re fun but not frivolous, strong but not strident, progressive but not preachy.

Jacqueline Lalley

The Jacqueline Lalley Communications team is led by Jacqueline Lalley. Jackie has more than 15 years’ experience as a communications professional. As director of communications, publications, and marketing at the national nonprofit organization that she served for 10 years, Jackie oversaw the creation of hundreds of resources for strengthening families and communities, was editor of a national magazine, and managed a half-million-dollar budget. She has an MFA in writing (poetry) and a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from Mount Holyoke College. Jackie serves on the board of Woodland Pattern Book Center and the Wisconsin Center for the Book, and she teaches workshops and classes in creative writing as well as communications for nonprofits.

A contributing writer for the The Onion, Jackie brings a touch of humor to just about everything she does. Her published work includes:

  • "One With Nature: Milwaukee Leads the Way in Eco-friendly Burials" (Milwaukee Magazine, December 2009)
  • "The Eviction," an essay in Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled (2009, Villard) (Milwaukee Public Radio)
  • "Robins and Racism" (2009, Milwaukee Public Radio)
  • Encyclopedia of New York City (1st and 2nd ed., various entries)
  • "Girl Meets Boy" (2008, Milwaukee Public Radio)
  • "At Sea" (2008, Milwaukee Public Radio)
  • "Risk Factors: Media Sensationalism, Adult Prurience, and the Specter of Teen Sexuality" (Bitch Magazine, 2007)
  • "Beyond the Valley of the Geeks: Notes on Gender and Gaming" (Bitch Magazine, 2006)
  • "'I Had an Abortion' and Other Ululations," an essay in Abortion Under Attack (Seal Press / Avalon, 2006)
  • "Evidence," an essay in Secrets & Confidences: The Complicated Truth about Women's Friendships (Seal Press / Avalon, 2004)
  • The Harvard Review, Court Green, Konundrum Literary Engine, and other publications (poetry)