Sandra Tharas
Sandra Tharas began her public relations career working for the German National Tourist Office in New York, showing U.S. travel journalists her home country. Sandra graduated in 1999 with a master’s degree in social sciences from Friedrich-Alexander University in Nuremberg, Germany and moved to the United States a year later. She has been working with anat. since […]
Nasreen Hussain
Nasreen Hussain joined the anat. team in 2022. She has a background in both television production and higher education administration. Before coming to anat. she helped to bring local stories to viewers across the tri-state area with more than a decade of experience in broadcast journalism at organizations including News 12, FiOS1 News, Fox 5 NY, […]
Marina Hansen
Marina Hansen, Account Executive, joined the anat team in 2021. In this role, Marina specializes in the firm’s practice areas of arts & culture as well as health. A skilled wordsmith with expertise in social media, Marina holds a Certificate in Social Media Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. Marina received a bachelor’s degree […]
Lynsey Billet
Lynsey Billet worked in nonprofit advocacy, lobbying, and research prior to joining the anat. team in 2016. In her current role, Lynsey specializes in the firm’s Health practice area and works with organizations that engage in advocacy work and those that provide health care and other social services. Before joining anat., Lynsey was a member of AARP’s […]
Karin Venegas
Karin Venegas has been with the anat. team since 2019 and works primarily in the firm’s Arts & Culture practice area. She has experience helping clients develop strategic communications plans and thought leadership, produce exhibition previews and press conferences, and secure impactful press stories that drive audience attendance, fundraising and policy. Prior to joining the firm, she […]
Kara Walsh
Kara Walsh joined anat. in 2024. Fueled by a deep affection for NYC, she started her career with New York City business improvement districts and the Workforce1 program. Then, as an Account Executive at Modern Luxury Media, she excelled in crafting top-tier multi-platform marketing campaigns for Manhattan and Hamptons Magazine. Before joining anat., Kara worked at […]
Joanna Gallai
Joanna Gallai began her career at Shandwick Public Affairs (now Weber Shandwick) in Washington, D.C. where she worked on the team that supported the U.S. government and a client in a case at the World Trade Organization. She later moved to the New York office where she staffed and managed a variety of consumer goods and […]
Jake Oliver
Jake Oliver joined anat in 2018 and oversees the firm’s Advocacy practice area. Jake has a decade of public relations experience, having managed media relations and crisis communications campaigns for clients in the nonprofit, labor, financial services and health care fields. Prior to that, he worked in New York City politics and government, serving as […]
Erin Clarke
Erin Clarke joined the anat. team in 2020 after working as a television news reporter for 12 years. Erin previously worked at the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh, as the Bronx reporter at NY1, and at other stations throughout New York State. Erin is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in […]
Britney Trachtenberg
Britney Trachtenberg joined the anat. Team in 2024. She was previously an Editorial Assistant for BQE Media, a newspaper group where she reported on community events in Queens and Brooklyn. Working as a Contributing Writer for The Knockturnal, an online publication that focuses on arts and cultural events in Manhattan, she interviewed cast members at […]
