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Receiving the Ann Cramer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2024 Leaders in Corporate Citizenship Awards Program was icing on the cake for Amanda Brown-Olmstead who has focused her 52-year public relations career and volunteerism on community projects.
The founder of A. Brown-Olmstead Associates in Buckhead is still going strong at 80 (“and proud of it!”). She’s been a champion for social change since she opened the doors of her company and began working with diverse clients and integrating her staff before that was the norm. “Giving back was the way I was raised,” she says.
Brown-Olmstead’s projects have included everything from leading the effort to light up office buildings from Five Points to Lenox Square for the 1996 Olympics to coordinating the creation of the Historic Old Fourth Ward Park that has spawned growth and development ever since.
The company’s newest projects include helping to create the “The Many Lives of Andrew Young” exhibit that celebrates the ambassador’s 90th birthday and working with Gwinnett County on the Gateway 85 Community Improvement District that she calls “The Hub of the World” because of the 181 nationalities represented.
A. BROWN-OLMSTEAD ASSOCIATES
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