Amira Barger

Amira Barger is an award-winning Executive Vice President and Head of DEI Advisory, providing senior reputation management and communications counsel to clients across the globe. Recently named Woman of the Year by Women Health Care Executives, and named to 50/50 Women on Boards Top 50 Women to Watch for 2024 – 2025, Involve People’s Top 100 Executives list, the CMO Alliance’s Top CMOs of 2024, Top 50 Global DEI Professionals by OnConferences, Moguls’ Top 100 People Leaders, Leaderology’s Fearlessly Authentic Leaders list, and Business Insiders’ 30 under 40 in healthcare innovation, Amira is a scholar, practitioner and thought leader who brings more than 18 years of experience in strategic communications that reach stakeholders, mobilize the community and inspire action.

She has global experience in pharma/healthcare communications, corporate branding, web and social media, M&A experience, media relations, team management, sustainability/social impact, reputation management and DEI. Throughout her career, Amira has utilized these competency areas for clients such as: CVS Health, Eli Lilly, Walgreens, Hologic, Genentech, Pfizer, GSK/Haleon, BMS, Zoetis, Alkermes, Regeneron, Amgen, Medtronic, Children’s Miracle Network, Kaiser Permanente, First 5 Los Angeles, Covered California, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FEMA and California Community Colleges.

At California State University East Bay she serves as a professor in marketing, communications and change management joining the faculty in 2019. She also lectures at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the new Public Health for Business Leaders program. She's a data-informed, organizational architect who leverages design thinking to advance DEI and solve complex challenges. Prior to Edelman, Amira served as Senior Vice President, Public Relations and Public Affairs at Ogilvy where she led efforts to support government, corporate and non-profit clients in adopting equity-centered practices to reach historically underserved communities. She also worked in the nonprofit sector for 14 years tackling pressing, public issues that impact us all with organizations like the Public Health Institute, Feeding America and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America.

Amira maintains active memberships with: American Public Health Association, Public Relations Society of America, Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Chief (a private women’s network). She is an avid writer and her thought leadership, from bylines to webinars to podcasts, can be found here: https://www.clippings.me/amirabarger. She actively participates in organizations aligned to her passion for community service and efforts to empower historically underserved communities; she serves on the Board of By the Bay Health, Dining Out for Life International, Journalistic Learning Initiative, the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration, Valero-Benicia Refinery Community Advisory Board, and the City of Benicia Commission United for Racial Equity.