Julia Cartwright
Julia Cartwright
Senior Vice President, Communications
As Senior Vice President of Communications, Ms. Cartwright spearheads Legacy’s award-winning communications initiatives to achieve its mission to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. She leads a team of seasoned public relations professionals devoted to raising public awareness about the deadly toll tobacco takes in our nation, through innovative youth tobacco prevention education campaigns including the award-winning truth® campaign, and efforts to promote smoking cessation through multi-media campaigns like EX®.
She joined the foundation in September 2002, following 18 years with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). As a member of the original team that launched the Center in 1984, Ms. Cartwright is credited with helping to shape the public image of the nonprofit as it grew from a handful of committed child advocates to the internationally-respected organization it is today.
She is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (1981) and earned her Master’s Degree in Corporate Communications at Georgetown University (2011). She holds an executive certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. In 2006, she was named a finalist in PR News' annual PR Professional of the Year (Nonprofit/Association) competition. She also serves on NCMEC's Public Relations Committee of the Board of Directors, the Client Advisory Committee of the Council of Public Relations Firms and the Board of Directors of Empty Chair Theatre Company.