Patty Rusten is a partner in ERM’s Minneapolis office. She has been working in Public Affairs for more than 30 years providing public affairs and strategic communications leadership for complex, multi-jurisdictional, high-visibility and often controversial projects across the US. Patty has extensive experience in strategic planning and implementation of all elements of public participation plans, designing and facilitating community advisory or focus groups, building and creating comprehensive communication programs, acting as media spokesperson, developing plans and responding to crisis incidents, developing and providing communications training programs, and specialty outreach and communications programs for regulatory issues.
ERM is sponsoring and speaking at the Southern Gas Association Technical Conference on Environmental Permitting & Construction in Savannah this February.
The renowned event serves as a valuable platform for gaining consensus, sharing expertise and vision, raising the voice of natural gas and providing solutions to the industry’s major environmental opportunities.
