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Tom Andrzejewski
Senior Counsel | Public and Community Affairs
Specialist
Tom Andrzejewski blends almost four decades of experience in media, politics and community affairs to help clients communicate with key audiences and build enduring, positive relationships.
As a public affairs consultant, Tom has worked with numerous individuals, businesses and other organizations across Ohio, including major companies such as Rite Aid Corp., Tops Markets Inc., KeyBank and BP America Inc.; institutions such as University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and St. Ignatius High School; and public entities such as the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, North Coast Harbor, the Ohio Department of Education, Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Department of Public Utilities. Also in the public arena, Tom has been an advisor to candidates for numerous municipal, county, state and federal offices. Those included Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson and Cleveland Law Director Robert J. Triozzi. Tom served on the Jackson Transition Team as a community relations advisor.
Tom, who has been inducted into the Press Club of Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame, spent nearly 25 years at The Plain Dealer. He covered most of the major beats as a reporter, spent a year as day city editor and for more than a decade was urban affairs writer and columnist. He received numerous national, state and local awards, ranging from the Silver Gavel of the American Bar Association to the Good Neighbor Award of the Association of Neighborhood Councils.
Tom is also civically active. He is a director and executive committee member of the Center for Community Solutions and chairs its programming committee. He is also past president of the board of Community Re-Entry, a nationally acclaimed program to reduce crime by working with ex-offenders, and remains on its board and executive committee. Tom served as a member of the Special Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland and chaired its communication committee. He is also a member the Learning and Earning for Life Community Vision Council of United Way Services and the Public Affairs Committee of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. Tom served for eight years as a mayoral appointee to the board of the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Cleveland. While at The Plain Dealer, he was an officer and executive board member of Local 1 of The Newspaper Guild and represented Local 1 as a delegate to the Cleveland AFL-CIO Federation of Labor. He is a Vietnam veteran of the 101st Airborne Division and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal and the Army Commendation Medal.
toma@fallscommunications.com
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