About Julie Dennehy, APR - public relations consultant

In 1996, Julie Dennehy engaged her years of Boston agency experience to launch Dennehy Public Relations, a pr firm specializing in connecting smart consumer-facing companies with their stakeholders via strategic public relations. An aggressive and creative media strategist, Dennehy is a public relations consultant who excels at traditional and social media relations and content creation, launch/grand opening programs, and event management services. DPR clients are looking for a public relations specialist in consumer products/services, hospitality leaders, franchisors and retailers, arts/entertainment destinations and venues, and non-profit organizations. She is known for developing award-winning campaigns resulting in “out of the box” PR elements exceeding client expectations.   

Clients include 7-Eleven stores, 911Day.org, Best Friends Pet Hotels, Cabot Creamery, Cold Stone Creamery, Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, Franklin Food Pantry, InBev/Labatt USA beer, Fire + Ice Improvisational Grille, Northeastern University (University College, Center for Continuing Education, Center for Family Business), The Cottage restaurant, Red Mango, Resinate Inc., Rita’s Water Ice, Ruth’s Chris and Capital Grille, Macy’s, Next Step Bionics, Pay It Forward 9/11, Jurys Boston Hotel (now Loews), and many others. She spent over a decade representing 7-Eleven and Blockbuster New England stores and enjoys projects for a boutique portfolio of distinctive New England organizations from CodeWiz STEM learning centers, Anton’s Cleaners, Newton Community Pride, and major consumer events and festivals as the Boston Film Festival, Progressive New England Boat Show, Bay Colony Dog Show, “Dads Make A Difference” Fathers Day Festival, King Richard’s Faire, the NH Auto Show, Boston Winter on City Hall Plaza, ARTS FIRST for Harvard University Office of the Arts, and Oscar Night Boston for The Ellie Fund, 911Day.org (Boston event), and hundreds of VIP events, ribbon cuttings and events too numerous to list.

Quoted by the media and profiled by PR News’ special issue “15 To Watch: Highly Valued PR Assets,”  she is often contacted by traditional media contacts and online influencers as a valued resource for expert sources, unique content ideas, and breaking news responses/messaging.

Whether you call her a microphone magnet, a sucker for an empty podium or a glutton for punishment, Julie volunteers to lead collaborative networks and enjoys giving back to the PR community she loves dearly. She is the former president of three major PR organizations. For twenty years, Julie was an active member and long-time director of the PRConsultants Group - a national network of 50 independent PR pros collaborating to provide brands with National Strength. Local Power.™ She has also served board and leadership positions with local chapters of the Intl. Special Event Society, and was a dedicated president of​ both the Public Relations Society of America’s Boston chapter and the Publicity Club of New England (now PR Club). She is a frequent judge for global, regional and local award shows and was one of the founders (1997) of the Boston Independent Practitioners Network, now a sub-group of PRSA's Boston Chapter. She has also served as a PRSA national delegate and represented the Northeast on the district level and in PRSA’s national section for independent practitioners. For Julie, doing well by doing good includes leadership service as well as community service, and is past president of the Medway Business Council. She teaches Digital Media at Boston University and mentors the next generation of PR professionals gratefully.

A former radio DJ, Julie graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications and is a frequent public speaker, university guest lecturer and former adjunct faculty member at Boston University's College of Communication teaching Digital Media & PR. When she’s not serving her community, she’s exploring art, writing and live performance. She dabbles in mixed media art, and is passionate about musical theater. For five years, Julie brought her event/PR skills to BroadwayCon, an NYC convention connecting Broadway industry and fans, where she once assisted Lin Manuel Miranda and fangirl shrieked - on the inside, because she's a professional. 

In a post-pandemic "work from anywhere" culture, Julie and her husband Tim embraced change and moved from their native New England to the Charleston SC area, where she has learned the true meaning of a good crab cake, sweet tea, and the layered meanings of the colloquial phrase, "bless your heart".