Insight. Influence. Impact.

We move legislation, shift opinion, and win the fights that decide what gets built, passed, and heard.

The firm

Above Public Affairs was founded on a simple conviction: that the best public affairs work is built on deep expertise, trusted relationships, and a commitment to results.

We pair sharp strategy with relentless execution across advocacy, communications, digital, and research — the disciplines that move policy, shape narratives, and win campaigns. Founded by industry veterans, our bench draws from political campaigns, regulatory bodies, Fortune 500 in-house teams, non-profits, and government agencies on both sides of the aisle.

We are a focused, independent public affairs firm — purpose-built to deliver the kind of nimble, dedicated service that today's most complex public affairs challenges demand.

What we do

What fight are you in

Every engagement starts with knowing how we can help you win

Fights in the Public Arena

A competitor working the media. A surprise story naming your CEO. A message that has to hold steady across a dozen spokespeople. When your issue is contested in the court of public opinion, you need one coordinated voice across every channel at once.

How we help you win

Message development
Media & spokesperson training
News story placement
Reputation management
Crisis communications
Thought leadership strategy
Advertising — traditional & digital

Who we've helped win

Corporations, trade associations, and coalitions under sustained public pressure — holding the message discipline and media presence to come out ahead.

Making an Issue Something

A regulatory detail no reporter has picked up. A legislator who's never heard of your issue. Some fights are lost before they start because nobody's paying attention yet — we make sure they can't ignore it.

How we help you win

News story placement
Media & social monitoring
Online sentiment analysis
Editorial board briefings & journalist education
Advertising — traditional & digital
Single-issue website design & development

Who we've helped win

Organizations with a technical or under-the-radar issue — turned into sustained coverage and a legislative priority before decisions got made without them.

Land Use & Project Development

Whether opposition is already organizing at the county commission or you're still in site selection, projects don't get built on engineering alone — they get built on local support earned before the first shovel hits the ground.

How we help you win

Local stakeholder & influencer mapping
Community leader cultivation — grasstops
Supporter identification & mobilization — grassroots
Polling & audience analysis
Advertising — traditional & digital
Project websites with advocacy capabilities
Earned media strategy
One-pagers & presentations

Who we've helped win

Developers, utilities, and infrastructure companies facing local opposition — building the community support that carried projects through permitting and past resistance.

Coalitions, 501(c)(3)s & 501(c)(4)s

Standing up a new coalition from a blank page, or keeping an existing one from drifting between sessions — a coalition is only as strong as the infrastructure holding its members together.

How we help you win

Administration & infrastructure
Coalition building & activation
Communication infrastructure & databases
Member engagement & newsletters
Issue campaigns
Brand creation
Website design & development

Who we've helped win

Industry coalitions and non-profits — turning a member list into an active, mobilized network at the capitol.

Bill Killer — and Bill Passer

A bill in committee that could reshape your industry overnight, or a priority bill of your own that needs a coalition behind it. Legislative outcomes are decided by who shows up loudest at the right moment — we make sure that's you.

How we help you win

Legislator contact tools & constituent advocacy
Influencer-sphere & echo-chamber targeting
Advertising — traditional & digital
Ally & third-party coordination
Rapid response

Who we've helped win

Industries facing existential legislative threats — and advocacy groups pushing a priority bill — mobilizing the constituent pressure that moved the outcome.

Research & Analysis, Made Persuasive

Which lawmakers are actually persuadable? What does the data say — and will a legislator actually read it? Research only moves the needle when it's built to change minds, not fill a slide.

How we help you win

Survey research
Data modeling & management
Online sentiment analysis
Data visualization & mapping
Local jurisdiction & political analysis
Issue advocacy collateral & one-pagers

Who we've helped win

Lobbyists, coalitions, and campaigns on tight legislative timelines — raw data turned into materials that changed minds inside the capitol.

Trade Association Communications

Your board wants proof you're delivering value between sessions. Your members need a unified voice heading into a fight. A trade association's communications can't go quiet the moment the capitol clears out.

How we help you win

Member communications & newsletters
Legislative advocacy campaigns
Off-session engagement & updates
Message development for a shared agenda
Media relations & story placement
Advocacy events & annual meeting support
Coalition & ally coordination

Who we've helped win

Trade associations keeping members informed and genuinely engaged year-round — and fully unified when it matters most.

Services

The disciplines behind every win

Communications

Earned media, message, and reputation work.

Media & spokesperson training: Preparation and on-camera practice for the people who speak for you.
News story placement: Pitching and landing your story with the right reporters and outlets.
Crisis communications: The plan, the statements, and the team on call for the bad week.
Reputation management: Sustained press and positioning work between the big moments.
Message development: The tested language every channel and spokesperson works from.
Thought leadership strategy: Op-eds, bylines, and podium moments for your principals.
Media monitoring: Daily tracking of the coverage that touches your issue.
Editorial board & journalist briefing: Structured sit-downs ahead of votes and announcements.
Project collateral creation: Fact sheets, one-pagers, and briefing books for the room.

Digital

Advertising, web, email, and creative.

Advertising — traditional & digital: Planning, creative, and placement across paid channels.
Email & texting: List building and programs that get opened and acted on.
Social media: Channel management and content that keeps the message alive between news cycles.
Content & analytics: Content built to convert, tracked well enough to prove it.
Website design & development: Sites — including single-issue and coalition sites — with advocacy tools built in.
Video production: Scripting through final cut, for every placement.
Brand creation & strategy: A visual identity and voice built to read as credible from the first click.
Graphic design: The one-pagers, decks, and social graphics every campaign runs on.
Legislator contact tools: Click-to-contact tools that land constituent messages on real desks.

Research & Analysis

Polling, data, and stakeholder intelligence.

Survey research: Polling designed around the decision at hand.
Data modeling & management: Building and maintaining the datasets a campaign runs on.
Online sentiment analysis: What people actually say and think, measured at scale.
Data visualization & mapping: Complex issues made legible at a glance.
Local jurisdiction & political analysis: District-by-district readouts of who decides and how.
Stakeholder & influencer mapping: Who to contact, in what order, with what message.

Grasstops/roots

Coalitions, members, and mobilization.

Coalition administration: The back-office systems that keep a coalition running day to day.
Coalition building & activation: Recruiting members and mobilizing them when it counts.
Member engagement: Newsletters and programs that keep a coalition together.
Issue campaigns: Focused pushes built around a single win, start to finish.
Advocacy events: Fly-ins, lobby days, and public meetings, run end to end.
Ally & third-party coordination: Bringing in the outside voices that carry more weight than ours alone.
Community leader cultivation: Earning local champions before a project needs them.

Annie is a manager of Government Affairs and Advocacy at Above Public Affairs, providing grassroots and grasstops coalition outreach, community-level research, stakeholder intelligence, and issue monitoring at the state and local level. She works across industries with a particular focus on energy and land use.

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