The 2024 Rising Stars of the Profession: Marissa Smith

Marissa is a solution-oriented communications professional with extensive experience steering full lifecycle digital campaigns. She loves working alongside creative strategists while driving complex science and health care communications projects where the positive impact of the work is felt by patients and clinicians alike.

Marissa loves forging partnerships and working cross-functionally to exceed goals. She adroitly matches teammates to projects, so they feel engaged, supported, and empowered to deliver exceptional work. We all spend so much of our life working and for Marissa, it's critical that the work is putting 'capital G' good into the world.

These days, Marissa helps scientists tell stories about the progress being made toward the #CancerMoonshot. She's earned millions of impressions to media placements, increased organic traffic by 52% year-over-year for her government client's website, and become a trusted advisor to senior leaders across multiple cabinet-level agencies.