Michelle Barry

Michelle Barry is the director of Technology PR for Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, a public relations, marketing and customer engagement firm based in London with offices in Boston and Los Angeles. In second grade, Michelle declared to her class that she was going to be a writer, and since then, has explored the written and spoken word in virtually every conceivable platform: short and long-form fiction, poetry, stage plays, memoirs, songs, journalism, blogs, public relations and content marketing. For the last 13 years, she has developed and executed creative, high-impact public relations programs for startups, public companies and private corporations of all sizes. Before coming to RLYL, Michelle delivered guidance to technology clients of Davies Murphy Group, a LEWIS PR company, as well as Metis Communications, BridgeView Marketing, Citigate Cunningham and Eric Mower & Associates. Clients trust Michelle’s written and spoken communications skills to land them top-tier media interviews; her creative writing and relationship-building skills have resulted in client coverage in USA Today, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, Anderson Cooper 360, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BuzzFeed, Al Jazeera America, The Economist and many more. When she’s not busy making her clients famous, Michelle is a singer, songwriter, stage performer and slam poet. In 2008, she represented the state of New Hampshire as part of a team of five poets at the National Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin. She is one-third of the Somerville, Mass.-based folk trio Ignore Emporium, a vocalist for the jazz/funk fusion project Clark Dick and the Cocktails, and a vocalist/percussionist for the Nashua, NH-based cover band The Clones. She is the mother of two creative daughters and lives in the woods of Amherst, NH with her husband and three dogs. Michelle Barry will be speaking at #TEDxAMWomen15 on May 28, 2015 at Southern New Hampshire University.