Pronouns: She / Her / Hers

Carrie Fox is the founder and CEO of Mission Partners, a women-owned strategic communications firm and Certified B Corporation that guides high-potential nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible corporations in realizing their greatest social impact. Since launching her first firm in 2004, she has guided hundreds of organizations around the world to lead with purpose, fueling organizations and their missions forward in new and more impactful ways. Her signature “More Than Words” approach to courageous communication has been documented in the Amazon best-selling book of the same name. Carrie’s strategic communications work focuses deeply on issues of community— from social justice to sustainability, children’s health, higher education, and workforce development. She served as the creative visionary behind a nationwide campaign to transform the foster care system for young people aging out of care and she was the lead communications strategist behind a $10 million prize competition aimed at advancing global technology for more fuel-efficient vehicles. Carrie is a founding signatory of the #WeTheChange declaration to build business for good, and a founding member of the Purpose Collaborative, a national network of communications thought-leaders and industry experts that work together to provide impactful problem solving in touch with the current needs of today’s purpose-driven businesses. Her signature conversation series and podcast, Mission Forward, has featured Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, MacArthur Fellows, and some of the nation’s most sought-after philanthropy leaders. She is a Stevie Woman in Business Winner, a SmartCEO Washington Brava Award winner, a WWPR Woman of the Year Honoree, and a winner of PRWeek’s ’40 under 40′. She is a former member of the Advisory Board of the Greater Washington Community Foundation and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Loyola University Maryland. She is also the co-author of Adventures in Kindness: 52 Awesome Adventures  for Kids to Build a Better World, which she wrote with her 10-year old daughter Sophia. 

Carrie worked in several public affairs and public relations firms, including Prism Public Affairs, before launching her own. Those early career experiences, coupled with her unique career start as director of communications and spokesperson for Ripken Baseball, which was founded to manage Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr.’s many efforts, including his nationally recognized youth baseball initiative, helped her hone a unique blend of services that sit at the intersection of public relations, policy and philanthropy.  

Carrie is an engaged resident of Rockville, MD, where she resides with her husband Brian, daughters Sophia and Kate, and their dog, Fred.