López-Wagner Strategies is an equitable communications agency. We work with mission-driven individuals, organizations and companies to develop – and execute – equitable and inclusive strategies, to establish their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) practices, enhance their communications abilities and profile, while elevating their voice through thought leadership to strengthen collective impact while advancing social good.
The López-Wagner Strategies team is stacked with visionaries and strategists, language access and equitable communications experts ready to help you solve your challenges. Whether you seek leadership or communications coaching, DEI training and assessment, traditional communications, digital strategies, media relations or brand creation and development, inclusive grant design, or if you're looking to revamp and hit refresh on an existing program – together, let's work to effectively support your purpose for existing.
Betsy López-Wagner is Chief Strategist at López-Wagner Strategies and serves as the Strategic Communications Partner for ALRAS Digital. Betsy is a mentor, coach, trainer and storyteller, developing and advising on equitable and inclusive strategies for social good. She offers consulting services in DEI assessment, training and language access, bilingual, environmental and equitable communications, political and advocacy campaigns, strategic partnerships, community and movement building, inclusive grantmaking, Latino/a/x, Black, Indigenous, and communities of color engagement, environmental policy, and media relations with a racial justice and equity lens.
She has worked alongside attorneys and lobbyists to safeguard the health of communities, protect our air and water, fight arctic drilling and protect the ocean’s resources. And – she’s co-devised strategies alongside grassroots activists to ensure their power is seen, heard and felt from regional to national levels. She is committed to supporting the growth of an inclusive and equitable conservation movement to strengthen global, national and state-level priorities to protect our environment, democracy, and above all, people – especially those on the frontlines of an increasingly warming planet, rising ocean and social injustice.
She serves on the ComNet SF Leadership Team, a network of San Francisco-area communications professionals who believe in the power of smart communications to improve lives and is one of 50 community ambassadors for the Communications Network's V+ programming.
Some of Betsy's recent career highlights include serving on the advisory group for Heartwired to Love the Ocean and now training on the tool for advocates, supporting strategic communications for the Global Climate Action Summit’s Ocean Day via the Packard Foundation, working with Earthjustice attorneys to protect the Arctic and garnering stronger protections for farmworkers exposed to pesticides, training grassroots leaders to safeguard the Clean Power Plan and advocate for electric school buses to nix diesel pollution via the League of Conservation Voters, and serving on the steering committee of the People’s Climate March.
She’s pitched — and landed — op-eds and news hits in outlets including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Noticias Telemundo, Pulso News, Teen Vogue, Sacramento Bee and La Opinion.