Bess Winston

Bess Winston

Managing Director and Founder

I’ve spent two decades shaping narratives for blue chip companies and national organizations that are responsive to shifting societal priorities around resilient and healthy communities, natural resource conservation and environmental stability, diversity and equality, and other global societal issues of our time.

I’m not one to sit on the sidelines and I believe that the force of good is present in most people and organizations…and in the SONIC® Cheeseburger of my youth in Austin, Texas.

I founded the Winston Agency in 2013, following service as a senior advisor on Capitol Hill and executive leadership positions at several leading global communications firms, with the purpose of creating specialized, “in the trenches” partnerships with clients. I studied Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and hold an M.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in History from Tufts University.