COURTNEY LODATO
Vice President
courtney@singersf.com
As vice president at Singer Associates, Courtney Lodato provides and executes media relations strategy, client communications programs, advertising campaigns, event production and community outreach. Her experience includes: Stanford University, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Transbay Joint Powers Authority, Bay Meadows Land Company, Norcal Waste Systems, Langtry Estate & Vineyards, and The Climate Group, among others.
A former print journalist and radio and television producer, Ms. Lodato creates and manages the day-to-day communications, public outreach and advertising materials for Singer clients. She handles the management of major news events such as the Climate & Energy Roundtable hosted by The Climate Group with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and prominent multi-national CEOs to form a UK/CA agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Recently, she coordinated the VIP event with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Venezuelan Embassy and CITGO for the performance of Gustavo Dudamel and the Simòn Bolìvar Youth Orchestra at Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Other major media campaigns include: the Transbay Transit Center’s International Design & Development Competition to select the lead architect and developer for the project which will create a “Grand Central Station” of the West in downtown San Francisco and the acquisition of the San Francisco Examiner by the Anschutz Corporation.
Ms. Lodato also worked as part of the team to defeat the referendum against Bay Meadows Land Company’s planned 83-acre reuse of the Bay Meadows Racetrack and implemented the Peninsula Health Care District’s public information campaign for Measure V, the agreement between the District and Mills-Peninsula Health Services to build a new $488 million state-of-the-art hospital to replace the Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame due to seismic safety mandates. The Measure successfully passed with over 92% of the vote and the new hospital is currently being constructed.
She currently manages the communications and community outreach for the $4 billion Transbay Transit Center project in downtown San Francisco and Stanford University’s $2 billion expansion and rebuild of Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto.
Ms. Lodato graduated with High Honors with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara.