{"id":611,"date":"2026-07-03T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=611"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:32:16","slug":"alysha-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/people\/alysha-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"Alysha Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alysha&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Cunningham is Director of Communications in Carleton University\u2019s Department of University Communications. She leads the university\u2019s corporate communications, media&nbsp;relations&nbsp;and content strategy, helping to shape institutional messaging and strengthen Carleton\u2019s reputation through strategic communications approaches. With more than 15 years of experience in public relations, she has built a career focused on relationship-building, institutional&nbsp;communications&nbsp;and supporting organizational priorities through effective storytelling and engagement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cunningham\u2019s work spans a range of communications functions, including media relations, content\u00a0development\u00a0and strategic messaging. She is passionate about helping the university communicate its goals,\u00a0achievements\u00a0and impact to a wide range of audiences while ensuring that communications efforts\u00a0remain\u00a0aligned with institutional\u00a0objectives. Her approach emphasizes collaboration and the importance of clear, consistent messaging in advancing organizational priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;lies in strategic communications, public relations, media&nbsp;engagement&nbsp;and institutional reputation management.&nbsp;These interests guide her work in supporting university initiatives and fostering connections across internal and external communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a member of the Towards Carleton@100&nbsp;strategic visioning process,&nbsp;Cunningham&nbsp;contributes communications&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;and strategic storytelling to help engage stakeholders and communicate the vision and aspirations that will shape Carleton\u2019s future.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":612,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Alysha","cu_people_last_name":"Cunningham","cu_people_initials":"AC","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[44],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-611","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-leadership-team"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Director, Communications (Department of University Communications)","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/611\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}