Welcome, Lindsay.

The Raben Impact Entertainment team is growing and we are thrilled to welcome Lindsay Guetschow as the newest Principal to join our team.

So much of our entertainment-based work has historically been driven from the east coast, and given the growth of Raben Impact Entertainment over the past few years, it’s not only exciting to have someone as exceptional as Lindsay driving our work from Hollywood now, but has proved quite necessary too!

With more than 15 years of experience, Lindsay has developed and led campaigns for films, nonprofits, and foundations engaging communities around the world to drive meaningful and measurable narrative, cultural, and progressive policy change. The heart of her work lies at the intersection of powerful storytelling and impact.

On what it means to have Lindsay join the team, Heidi Nel, Head of Raben Impact Entertainment and Principal at The Raben Group said:

“Lindsay is the real deal. Her savvy in leveraging film and storytelling to elevate causes is unmatched. With her deep connections across the film industry and with so many of our colleagues throughout the NGO space, we are thrilled to be able to expand our team, provide greater facetime to our clients in the heart of the city where we work most, and continue to lead in the impact entertainment space.”

The founder and President of The Raben Group, Robert Raben, said:

Lindsay’s energy and ability to catalyze movements through arts and film speaks to the core mission of this firm. Her heart and prodigious mind are about maximizing access to opportunity and improving the lives of marginalized communities. We have long envisioned building the most exciting integration of storytelling and public policy in the nation, and having Lindsay join us in this endeavor brings us one important step closer in this fight.

Lindsay served as the film campaign director at Malala Fund, where she developed the strategy and ran the global Stand #withMalala campaign using He Named Me Malala to advance the movement for girls’ secondary education. Engaging over 1.3 million young people in screenings and campaign programs, Stand #withMalala has helped shift education policy in Nigeria and Pakistan, raised over $3M to support Malala Fund programs in developing countries and trained close to 1000 girls in advocacy and leadership in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria, India and Kenya.

She previously served as the senior director for marketing and strategic alliances at Participant Media, where she established partnerships with hundreds of nonprofits, foundations, and corporations to support impact campaigns for films such as Waiting for “Superman”, TEACH, Middle of Nowhere, A Place at the Table, Last Call at the Oasis, Lincoln, Misconception, Promised Land, and Ivory Tower.

Lindsay worked as a social impact agent at Propper Daley and helped launch the “Cool Globes” public art exhibit in Los Angeles and Copenhagen during COP 15. She helped build the Stop Global Warming Virtual March Campaign, and also worked on the impact campaign supporting the Academy Award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Lindsay was the recipient of Self Magazine’s Women Doing Good Award, has been featured on the Today Show, and contributed to pieces for The New York Times and TIME, Glamour, and Elle Magazines. A graduate of U.C. Davis, Lindsay resides in Los Angeles but remains passport ready, traveling as often as she can (over 40 countries and counting)!

On joining the Raben Group, Lindsay said:

I am honored to join the Raben team, a group of some of the smartest, kindest, heart centered leaders working tirelessly to create a more equitable and just world. I deeply believe in the power of storytelling to shift narrative, change culture and ultimately impact policy in a progressive and positive direction. The opportunity to tap into my colleagues’ issue expertise and access to policymakers to do deep impactful work together is a dream. They are an incredible team and I am grateful to be a part of it!

Join us in welcoming Lindsay to the team by saying hi at lguetschow@rabengroup.com or following her on Twitter or Instagram at @LGuetschow.