Ariane Le Chevallier
Founder & CEO
Ariane Le Chevallier is an experienced strategic communications advisor who has worked with dozens of high-profile national, state, and local nonprofits, foundations, public agencies, and elected leaders on the most consequential issues facing our country. Her work has focused primarily on social, economic, health, education and environmental issues that disproportionately impact women, people of color, children and communities with the least economic and social power. She is most passionate about building trust in (good) government and communicating effectively about social safety net programs.
Ariane’s career began in Washington, D.C. where she worked for more than a decade prior to moving to Portland, OR. Her areas of expertise are in communications planning, media relations, public affairs, messaging, stakeholder relations and crisis communications. Her secret power is mapping the right audiences to the most effective messages, messengers and media strategies.
Ariane has worked in dozens of public policy and advocacy areas including health care (health coverage, reproductive health, public health and mental health), early and K-12 public education, affordable housing and homelessness, childhood hunger, unemployment insurance, wildfire resiliency, sustainability, childhood development and more. She has successfully generated media coverage in hundreds of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, NPR, Axios, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Forbes, Hechinger Report, The Oregonian and OPB.
Ariane is an instructor for the Strategic Communications and Public Relations program at Portland State University’s Center for Executive and Professional Education and is the founder of The Mom Collective. She is a proud product of the public education system and graduated from the University of Utah with a B. A. in mass communication. She also completed masters-level coursework in public administration at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She lives in Portland, OR with her partner Gabe who is an insurance recovery attorney, her very active 1st grader and her darling pup, Joanie.