About MAVPR

​Over the last six years, Melissa A Vitale PR has grown to a team of empowered publicists known for feature placements.

Spearheading the team, Melissa A Vitale brings a brand of no-BS that focuses on the art of relationship building, storytelling and strategic media planning.

MAVPR has become known for helping disruptive startups across legal cannabis and sexual wellness tell their stories and insert expertise into top-tier media coverage with a focus on education over sensation. MAVPR campaigns have resulted in cross-industry recognition along with feature print, online and broadcast coverage.

Melissa cut her teeth working for Jim Dowd, a renowned PR vet, known for launching The Apprentice. Vitale's style of media relations mimics Dowd's, focusing on storytelling and cultivating media relationships. 
 
Lauded for her entrepreneurial mind and beat into the transforming media industry, Melissa has secured coverage for her clients in the most recognizable publications in media.
 
Melissa A Vitale PR has represented over 70 brands in luxury, lifestyle, fashion, beauty, entertainment, vice, health and wellness, hospitality, real estate, consumer goods and enterprise technology. Proudly raised in New Jersey and Residing in Brooklyn New York, Melissa A Vitale is a mix of sleepy shore summers and busy NYC winters. MAVPR is the nation's first sex and cannabis public relations agency. 

Since starting MAVPR...

Melissa A Vitale PR has become a recognized thought-leader at the intersection of sexual wellness and legal cannabis. Working with media covering the biggest trends of fringe culture, Melissa A Vitale is poised to comment with a variety of industry and insider insight. 

Melissa A Vitale is available to comment on a number of topics including: 

• Sex & Cannabis: Why the consumer trend has seen the two vices blended 
• Sexuality and Empowerment: An inside look at the relationship between pleasure and power 
• Cannabis & Wellness: Exploring the consumer trend of plant wellness, it's growing popularity and projections for a legal cannabis market 
• Young Entrepreneurial-ship: success, advice and real-stories from an under-30 entrepreneur in the vice industries 
• Market predictions, trends, and hot-button issues across business, entrepreneurship. sex-positivity & legal cannabis

Journalists and students looking to interview Melissa [or her cast of industry-leading clients!] are encouraged to fill out the below contact form.