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Aprill O. Turner

Board Member

A photo of Aprill O. Turner, a Black woman with shoulder length loose curls, a silver necklace, a black and white polka dot blouse and a mint green cardigan.

Aprill O. Turner is a public relations professional with nearly twenty years of experience working with non-profit and corporate clients, as well as elected officials, in the areas of political and communication strategy, message development, media training, crisis communications, and public affairs. Currently Aprill is Principal of Turner Communications, LLC, where she practices her motto, “public relations with a purpose” and enjoys advancing worthy causes. She has worked with: The NAACP, Education Post, The National Association of Black Journalists, Higher Heights for America, The National Black MBA Association, The National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, The Children’s Dental Health Project, Resilience Force, and Medgar Evers College’s Center for Law and Social Justice.

Previously, Aprill worked on Capitol Hill in several media capacities, including Press Advisor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Deputy Press Secretary to Congressman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, Communications Director to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy of New York. Aprill has also been a Senior Account Executive at CooperKatz Public Relations in New York City, as well as planned and conducted media outreach initiatives for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights. Additionally, she has led media strategy for several local, Congressional and Senatorial campaigns.

Aprill teaches public relations at Trinity Washington University and Montgomery College. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the National Press Club, the National Black Public Relations Society, The National Communications Association, ColorComm, and a former board member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Aprill holds a bachelor’s degree in legal communications from Howard University and a master’s degree in political communication and fundraising from The George Washington University, and she is currently in the dissertation phase of her doctorate program in Strategic Communications at Regent University. Aprill has obtained her Accreditation in Public Relations (APR).