Maryanne Giustino O’Dowd has deep expertise in integrated marketing planning and mediarelations strategy, informed by decades of work in corporate and mission-driven environments.Since retiring from a full-time corporate role, Maryanne has provided crisis/issues counsel andtraining to a select group of national and global clients. She devotes much of her professionalenergy to civic and community-based organizations, where she serves in multiple leadershipcapacities, including:
• League of Women Voters of Door County — Leadership Team, Programs Chair• Friends of Door County Libraries — Board Member• Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County — Chair, Outreach SteeringCommittee• Sister Bay & Liberty Grove Fire Department History Project — Project Director• United Way of Door County — Grant Review Committee (2023–2024)• Greater Escarpment Organization of Door County — Board Member, 2021–2025
Maryanne began her career in journalism, and her news and feature stories appeared inChicago-area publications, including the Chicago Tribune, the Suburban Chicago Sun-Times,the Lerner Newspaper Group, and the Journal-Topics newspapers. She is in the process ofcompleting her first novel.
After more than 50 years as a Chicagoan, Maryanne now resides full-time in beautiful DoorCounty, Wisconsin, with her husband, Eamon O’Dowd, and their lovable Goldendoodle, Devin.
