MAP Communications - The Team

Our team's goal is simple: deliver exceptional communications campaigns for exceptional clients. MAP Communications was founded to be the premier local media relations firm in Portland, a boutique agency focused on results. We approach our clients' communications campaigns as a no-nonsense navigator offering experience, integrity and results.

John Mangan
Melissa Moore

John Mangan

President and CEO

John has provided strategic counsel, media-relations, public affairs and community relations guidance to all the firm’s clients, including Otak Inc., Williams & Dame Development, Ranch at the Canyons and Washington Trust Bank. He also handles government relations in five western states for The American Council of Life Insurers, one of the nation’s largest financial services trade associations.

Prior to creating MAP in February 2002, John was vice president of the Corporate Leadership Practice at Fleishman-Hillard, where he led accounts ranging from Umpqua Holdings Corporation and StanCorp Financial Group to TransCore and The New Economy Coalition. His work there earned two IABC awards for editorial and business writing and two PRSA Spotlight Awards. John spent more than 15 years with StanCorp Financial Group, leading the company’s public affairs and communications efforts and acting as chief lobbyist and media spokesperson.

A leader in the community, John serves on the executive committee of Northwest Business for Culture and the Arts and the board of the Cultural Advocacy Coalition. He is past president of Young Audiences of Oregon and Southwest Washington and past chairman of the Oregon College of Art and Craft Board of Trustees.

John is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he earned his B.A in English in 1980. He was awarded a graduate fellowship to Columbia University in New York, where he earned his M.A. in comparative literature in 1982.

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Melissa Moore

Vice President

Melissa joined MAP Communications four years ago specializing in national and regional media relations, speaking engagements, media coaching and video production. At MAP, she has led account work for Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Flowerbud.com, Reclaiming Futures and New Routes to Community Health (both Robert Wood Johnson Foundation programs), Ranch at the Canyons and the Oregon Optometric Physicians Association. Additionally, Melissa had led project work for the Weiden+Kennedy, Portland Business Alliance, the Portland Schools Foundation, Otak, and Specht Development. She has media-coached spokespeople from companies such as Northwest Natural Gas, Ferguson Wellman Capital Management and the Energy Trust of Oregon.

Melissa began her career as an anchor, reporter and producer at television stations around the Northwest, from Kennewick, WA, to Eugene, OR. In Portland, she was in charge of content for magazine shows on KPTV and KGW, and she co-created and oversaw guest selection for KPTV's ratings dominant morning show, Good Day Oregon. From this experience, Melissa knows what makes a good story and a strong interview, and how to get both placed in the media.

After 13 years in television news, Melissa transitioned to public relations and became a senior account supervisor at the international PR firm Fleishman-Hillard, formerly KVO Public Relations. There she led successful national and local media campaigns for corporate, consumer and non-profit clients such as Intel Computer Clubhouse, Starbucks, the Tobacco-Free Coalition of Oregon, the National Psoriasis Foundation, the Washington Wheat Commission and Kows for Kids. Melissa won a national SABRE award for the media attention she garnered for Gofish.com, which included stories on CNBC and MSNBC and in the New York Times. She has also won several local awards of excellence from the Public Relations Society of America for video production and media coverage.

A graduate of Washington State University's Honors Program, Melissa was one of 14 students nationwide selected by the International Radio and Television Society for a fellowship at CBS Evening News. Melissa serves on the board of directors at Oregon Partnership and is the co-founder of the non-profit My Little Waiting Room. She lives in Portland with her husband, Todd, and their daughter, Jena.

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