communications & operations for mission-driven organizations

Wendy Purnell is dedicated to the free movement of goods, people, and ideas. With a background in advertising, education, international business, and public policy, she helps non-profit and for-profit clients market products and communicate ideas to new audiences.

Wendy Purnell has spent two decades advancing the ideas of a free society. In Central Europe, she focused on media literacy and the re-emergence of civil society post communism. In Central America, she worked on rights-based biodiversity conservation and economic development efforts with Paso Pacífico. In the US, Wendy has worked at the intersection of academia, education, and public policy with students and scholars at the Institute for Humane Studies, the Cato Institute, and PERC. Wendy helped build the Renewing Indigenous Economies Project at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University to remove barriers to self-governance and entrepreneurship for Native nations in the former British colonies and beyond. She co-founded IndigenousEcon.org, dedicated to meaningful sovereignty for Indigenous nations. Now, she is focused on her work with the CantWait Foundation where she and her co-founders are working to improve transparency and accountability in law enforcement one jurisdiction at a time.