MEGAN JENTZ

Megan has had a deep interest in science since childhood when she dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. We are grateful that chemistry class was the stumbling block that pointed her to public relations and a career promoting research and science-based clients.

She joined our firm in 2007 after serving as a communications specialist at the Yerkes Research Center, one of the nation’s preeminent biomedical and behavioral institutes studying nonhuman primates. While there, she planned a research symposium for 250 leading HIV/AIDS researchers and worked with ABC News and other well-known media. Her work included community tours, which allowed her to get close to social groups of capuchins and chimpanzees, which she wants the world to know are actually apes — not monkeys.

Earlier in her career, Megan worked at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute and in fundraising for the university.

She majored in Public Relations and graduated from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia. While in college, she parlayed her interest in research with community service, planning a breast cancer event benefiting Athens Regional Medical Center, which is coincidentally a Jackson Spalding client.

Megan is a native of Brooklyn, NY, who moved to the Atlanta area when she was in grade school. If she could have her dream job for a day it would be dancing in a Broadway production, but she satisfies this passion by taking dance classes.