Mary Boyle
Mary Boyle is Common Cause’s vice president for communications.
Mary is responsible for developing and executing a wide range of communications plans, including free and earned media strategies in support of public education and issue advocacy campaigns. She works with print, broadcast, and online news outlets to generate coverage of Common Cause’s work and collaborates with other senior staff to produce reports, op-eds, web content, and advertisements.
Before joining Common Cause in 2002, Mary covered politics and public policy for the Denver and Washington bureaus of The Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and was a general assignment reporter for The Associated Press in Baltimore and Denver. She started her journalism career as a staff writer for The Sun of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Mary has a bachelor’s degree in English from Holy Cross College and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.