CJC Insights is a New York City-based strategic communications and public relations agency that puts mission-driven companies and nonprofits on the map. We serve startups, nonprofits, emerging brands, and businesses. As a fractional chief communications officer, we partner with leaders at inflection points, including launches, fundraising, and transitions. We sharpen their narrative, build media and industry relationships, secure speaking opportunities, prepare spokespeople through media training, and manage reputational issues. We exist because strategic communications drives growth, yet the founders who most need it often can’t access it. We make that expertise accessible.

Chanel Cathey is the Founder and CEO of CJC Insights, an award-winning strategic communications agency she launched in New York City in 2018 to move mission-driven brands forward. The firm represents startups, nonprofits, and established organizations nationwide across advocacy, technology, venture capital, and private equity, and has a track record of helping diverse founders launch and scale. Before founding CJC Insights, Chanel spent more than a decade leading media relations for global brands including Viacom (Paramount), ABC News, and Unilever. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company, and she received ADCOLOR’s 2020 Change Agent Award. CJC Insights was named to the 2021 Forbes Next 1000 and The Observer’s PR Power 50, and is a PR Net 100 honoree. Chanel is a Fast Company contributor and a former advisor to the Wall Street Journal’s Women in the Workplace series. She isz a former Fordham University adjunct professor and a founding member of The PR Net’s BIPOC Mentorship Program, and she advises startups and serves on nonprofit boards. She holds a BA from Fordham and an MPA from NYU.