Robin P. Schell
Senior Counsel & Partner
(603) 770-3607
rschell@ jjwpr.com
Stacey Smith
Senior Counsel & Partner
(603) 205-6302
ssmith@jjwpr.com
Main Office
(603)-964-6302
Isobel Parke, APR, Fellow PRSA
is Partner Emertius at JJ&W and has been a member of the firm since 1963. Isobel brings expertise in issue anticipation and analysis, community coalition building, environmental programs for both business and non-profit and crisis containment. She has had many years of public relations consulting experience ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to starving non-profits. Isobel has counseled numerous independent schools on a wide variety of critical situations, environmental coalitions on campaign strategies and land conservation, healthcare organizations concerned with mergers and restructuring and industries ranging from utilities to waste management.
Isobel graduated from the Winsor School in Boston, and received a BA in Modern History from Oxford University in the U.K. She then lived in Germany and Kenya, and later taught in China. This background brings to JJ&W first-hand experience of cultural differences.
In addition to the specialties stated above Isobel also has particular expertise in the following areas:
- Strategic planning, crisis communication and emerging issues
- Political activism, lobbying
- Environmental, forestry and waste disposal issues
- Coalition and consensus building
Noteworthy Professional Activities
- PRSA Assembly delegate, National Board Member and Secretary
- Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications
- PRSA Commission on Public Relations Education
- Founding roster of the Honor Roll of Women in Public Relations
Public Service
- University of New Hampshire Co-op Extension, Rockingham County Advisory Council
- SPACE Board of Directors
- Lamprey River Watershed Association, Board Member
- President, New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association
- Granite State Woodland Institute, Board Member
- President, Rockingham County Woodland Owners Association
- Rockingham County Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice, Board Member
- Leif Ericson Millennium Committee
- Exeter Town House Common Committee
- Epping Conservation Committee
Publications
- Contributor, Public Relations Practice, Managerial Case Studies and Problems, Jackson and Center now it its 6th edition.
Awards
- PRSA David Ferguson Award, 2002