Cynthia Baugh Williams
Cynthia Baugh Williams is an accomplished communications professional with extensive experience in management, strategic plan development and public relations counseling for businesses, individuals and organizations.
As a consultant, she specializes in reaching African Americans, other minorities and women with communications and marketing messages. A former vice president & general manager for JacksonHeath and now a Senior Consultant, Williams has held senior management positions with other international public relations agencies, with local governments, educational institutions and Fortune 500 corporations.
Williams managed communications efforts during organizational restructures for several advancing technology companies. As a corporate communications executive, she directed employee communications, corporate communications, media relations, consumer and business-to-business communications for BellSouth, AT&T, and NORTEL.
She was vice president with Hill and Knowlton Public Relations in Atlanta, where she led teams to create and implement campaigns for the Puerto Rico Office of Tourism at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta; Mitel Corporation’s launch of computer-telephony products; CIGNA Healthcare local community relations programs; the Georgia Office of Nutrition assessment of food stamp usage, and others. As a senior counselor with Burson-Marsteller in Washington, DC, she developed community relations strategies for Northern Telecom and for Bell Atlantic Corp. Williams directed public affairs for Morehouse School of Medicine, where she managed media relations for the school’s academic, community outreach, and physician practice programs.
An award-winning writer and editor, Williams has been published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, and Women Looking Ahead News Magazine, as well as professional publications. Williams received awards for feature and technical writing, and for photography from the International Association of Business Communicators. Earlier in her career, she edited a weekly newspaper and worked as producer, reporter and anchor for WRBL-TV/Radio News in Columbus, Georgia—the first African American in the organization’s news department.
Williams is a journalism graduate of the University of Georgia, where she also pioneered for African Americans as the first to hold a position on the University’s student newspaper, the Red and Black. She later became a member of its advisory board. In a March, 2002 issue, she is featured in a tribute to influential women in the University’s history.