President, Benbow International PR
San Francisco, CA
Priss Benbow has over 30 years of experience in public relations crafting stories that persuade people to act. As president of her firm, Benbow International PR, she develops and executes public relations strategies and directs media campaigns to raise the visibility and credibility of CEOs, organizations, and issues.
During her career, Priss has worked with journalists in 17 countries, and her clients have been featured in the world’s most recognized media.
Before founding her firm, she worked in the Vice President’s press office at the White House, where she held a top-secret security clearance and served as a liaison to the White House press corps. She then worked as a consultant at Bain & Company.
While at DCI, Priss began to redirect her public relations expertise to help social impact organizations while learning an entirely new medium: photography. She has since secured media coverage of the global refugee crisis, homelessness, and the arts and is now a Getty Images Contributor.
Priss is an alumna of The Hockaday School and earned an MA at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. She is a past Instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies, where she taught classes in public relations.