Lauren W. Wilson

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Lauren W. Wilson is an American entrepreneur and communicator who founded ColorComm and serves as its president. Born in Chesterfield, Missouri, she grew up near St. Louis and studied at Spelman College, earning a BA in Political Science with a focus on International Relations. She studied abroad at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and later earned a master’s degree in Communications from Georgetown University. Early in her career, she interned at Edelman and Ketchum and worked at Hill+Knowlton, where she started ColorComm in 2011 after noticing a lack of diversity in leadership. She later served as a Communications Strategist at Qorvis/MSLGROUP before leaving in 2015 to lead ColorComm, Inc. as CEO.

Wilson also has experience on Capitol Hill as Communications Director for Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and helped on Barack Obama’s 2012 Florida re-election campaign as a media booker. She is a contributor to Forbes, writing about women of color in business, and served as a juror on the Cannes Lions jury in 2017. ColorComm began as a small lunch group to connect women of color in media and has grown into a national platform for women of color in business. It works with more than 50 partners, including Coca-Cola, Toyota, AT&T and Facebook, and owns ColorComm Media Group and the DivergeNow.com online magazine, with offices in Washington, DC and New York. By 2020, ColorComm’s community exceeded 40,000 professionals.

Wilson has received numerous honors, including PR Week’s 40 Under 40 and 50 Most Powerful in PR, Ad Age’s Women to Watch, The Root 100, and features in The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Black Enterprise and Ebony. She has also been recognized by Washington Women in PR as an Emerging Leader.