Staff Profile: Andrew J. Martin

Andrew J. Martin
Director of Communications, Development and Communications

Andrew J. Martin is Director of Communications at The New York Academy of Medicine, overseeing all of the Academy’s regional, national, and international media relations and communications efforts.

Prior to joining the Academy’s Development and Communications team this year, Mr. Martin served for more than ten years as a senior-level communications professional with expertise in messaging, strategic planning and external affairs. Most recently he was the Director of Media and Government Relations for DOROT, a non-profit organization working to enhance the lives of elderly in the greater New York metropolitan area. Prior to that, Mr. Martin was the Director of Media and Government Relations for Volunteers of America of Greater New York; Director of Communications for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and Senior Program Officer for Communications for the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture of the Soros Foundation.

Mr. Martin has also worked as a reporter for The New Haven Register and KQED-FM/National Public Radio in San Francisco. In 2004, Mr. Martin was selected as a fellow with Coro Leadership New York, a community of mid-career professionals from the private, public, and non-profit sectors who examine their personal approaches to leadership while going behind the scenes to wrestle with New York City’s complex public policy issues.

Mr. Martin received his BA in Journalism with a minor in Urban Studies from the San Francisco State University.

Contact information

amartin@nyam.org; (212) 822-7285