Amanda Thayer

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Amanda Thayer brings 15 years of experience driving high-impact communications and public affairs campaigns, navigating legislative and regulatory challenges, managing crises, positioning principals, and delivering political wins.

She brings a deep understanding of leveraging cutting-edge messaging research to craft winning narratives, navigating the media landscape, and building campaigns that help her clients tackle and win policy fights.

Prior to GSG, Amanda led political, national, and federal advocacy communications at Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL), a leading reproductive rights organization. She served as a spokesperson, drove coverage in top outlets like The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and Vogue, elevated the profile of the organization’s president, and managed election cycles, legislative battles, and several Supreme Court fights. She also worked at a Democratic lobbying firm under former U.S. Congressman Toby Moffett, working on issues like trade, renewable energy, and gun violence prevention, and did a stint on a congressional campaign.

Amanda was named as one of the 2025 “Top Women in Communications” by Ragan Communications & PR Daily and was part of the GSG team that won the PRWeek 2024 “Public Affairs Campaign of the Year”.

A DC native, Amanda lives in Chevy Chase with her husband, toddler, and ball-obsessed black lab. Most of her free time is spent wrangling the latter two. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University.