Anna Maria Barry is a communications professional who enjoys working with teams – large and small, global and local – to accomplish amazing things.
Anna Maria is strong promoter of media literacy and believing that it empowers people to make informed decisions in this digital age.
“Media literacy is an ongoing process but the positive outcome enables people of all ages to navigate the modern news environment and take informed decisions.“
Anna Maria Barry
Anna Maria has significant experience in helping organisations and individuals to change how they communicate and enhance their messaging – skills that have been put to good use as part of her membership of MLI.
She has been a member of MLI for a number of years, initially joining as an individual when she helped coordinate Virgin Media’s support for the Be Media Smart campaign.
She later served on the MLI Steering Group as the representative for Commercial Media during her time as Head of Public Relations for Virgin Media.
In more recent times, Anna Maria is supporting the work of MLI by acting as communications lead to support the launch of the MLI Awards 2023, and is in no small way responsible for the eye-catching messages that have started to circulate about the MLI Awards 2023.