Kenneth A Kerrigan
Adjunct Instructor
Marketing and Public Relations
- BA, NYU
- MS, SI Newhouse School of Communications Management
kak215@nyu.edu
Ken is an award-winning, senior corporate reputation strategist, team builder and problem solver.
A graduate of NYU (class of 1989) with a masters in Communications Management from the SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Ken has more than 30 years of public relations experience in both senior agency and in-house corporate communications roles. He has served as a member of the adjunct faculty at New York University since 2013 and was awarded the School of Professional Studies award for teaching excellence in 2018.
He has held senior leadership roles at some of the world's most respected public relations agencies, including Weber Shandwick, Hill & Knowlton and Edelman. On the corporate side, Ken spent more than a decade as a Director of Americas Communications at Ernst & Young.
In addition to being a top communications strategist, Ken is also the lead singer in a hard rock cover band and routinely performs in clubs throughout New York City. He is the author of Our Future in Public Relations: A Cautionary Tale in Three Parts (Emerald Publishing).