Mary R. Trudel joined The Wallace Foundation in 2004 as Senior Communications Officer, serving on the Arts Team. She handles communications strategy for commissioned arts research products as well as developing events and outreach to share effective practices and ideas.

Before joining Wallace, Mary served as Group Director, Consumer Marketing & Technology, at Hill & Knowlton; Executive Vice President, Consumer/Consumer healthcare, at Ruder Finn Public Relations Worldwide; President of Kahn/Trudel Communications Group, and President of The Rowland Company Worldwide. She has developed major campaigns for the American Heart Association, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and Volkswagen, among other Fortune 500 companies.

Mary is a magna cum laude graduate of the City College of New York (CCNY), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is a winner of numerous public relations industry awards for her work in consumer products and community relations and she was named a PR All-Star by Inside PR Magazine. Mary began her career as a singer and attended the Manhattan School of Music.