What We’re About
We help guide & Guard your message
The COMMs/NATION philosophy
At COMMS/NATION we believe businesses are more than just a physical place or legal entity. Your business is comprised of all your hopes, dreams, ancestral knowledge passed down, your personality, and everything you’ve ever learned up to this very moment (yes, including this sentence you’re reading), and let’s not forget a little dash of courage.
Let’s imagine for a second that each of those things are equivalent to one gold bar. Are you going to have your gold bars sitting outside — exposed to whatever elements come their way? Heck No.
Are you going to allow anyone to chip away at them, so they can get a share? Absolutely, not.
Your knowledge, spirit, and ambition deserves to be kept safely guarded in a protected vault. Your life and future projections rests on the sturdiness of those walls at the Bank of Perception & Reputation.
Your reputation should always be working hard for you. Accruing compounded customer interest everyday. You always want to deposit extra gold bars in the event there is a ‘rainy day’ crisis.
We understand business owners can’t do everything. You only have two hands! That’s where we come in, to help advise you through complex marketing decisions and diversifying how the world sees you. That is the investment you are truly making today.
We are honored that you are considering working with us. It’s time to reach your goals and start dreaming bigger!
Our Mission
To teach the world that true power begins when you own the creation of your story.
Values
/ Create Ripples of Opportunity / Create to Lead
/ Create without Fear
Purpose
To champion humankind through thought.
We’re In The news. . .
PR On the go
Principles of Psychology You Can Use to Improve Your Public Relations - March 2021
Study: HOW DO SYSTEMIC CHALLENGES IMPACT MENTAL HEALTHCARE?
Andrea Garcia discusses mental health marketing for a diverse society. - May 2021
The Millennial Post
The US effort to cut off China’s access to semiconductor technology, explained - Oct. 2020
PR On The Go
Hacks to Improve Your Public Relations Campaigns - Nov. 2019
G2 Learning Hub
PR Experts Weigh In on Why Cultural Awareness is Crucial - 2019
International Business TImes
Businesses Turn To Projects They Didn't Have Time For Pre-COVID - July 2020
NJBiz
Hudson County Chamber forms new business group for women - May 2020
Formed in 2018, by two best-friends who believe they could
do communications better — so they did…
AndrÉa M. Garcia
OWNER / Head of PR / Co-Founder
Andréa M. Garcia is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of COMMS/NATION LLC, an award-winning full-service boutique Public Relations + Creative Graphic Design agency headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey.
She has a decade+ of experience crafting award-winning communications campaigns in top-level PR agencies for her clients who are: Fortune 500 companies, Non-Profit Organizations & Foundations, Private Equity, High-Stakes Litigation, Sensitive Crises Issues, and is a trusted-advisor to entrepreneurs and their portfolio companies. She’s a sought-after consultant to larger PR agencies on media relation strategies.
She served as a Board Director and VP of Marketing for the New Jersey Pride Chamber of Commerce 2021-2023 — where she was the first Hispanic woman to serve as a Board Director. She played a key role in increasing the Chamber’s membership by 156% in her first year.
ROI-NJ named Andrea to the 2023 ROI Influencers: Women In Business list for New Jersey, and then named her a Community Champion for her volunteer work. In June 2023, she was named a Leading Business Figure in NJ’s LGBT+ Community by ROI-NJ.
BEQ Pride Magazine named Andrea to its 2023 LGBTQ+ Leaders Under 40 list. She was then accepted to the 2023 New Jersey cohort for the New Leaders Council.
Her PR work on high-profile litigation cases was designated Band-2 by the UK's Chambers & Partners as Professional Advisers: Litigation Support in 2018. A PR campaign she managed on behalf of the New Jersey Sharing Network won a MarComm award in 2013.
She has served as an advisor to the LBGT+ Caucus to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). She is a committeewoman of the National Communication Association. She was a Founding Council Member of the Women of Commerce for the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce.
Andrea earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, minored in Anthropology from Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. In 2010, she dual-studied Philosophy and International Relations in Athens, Greece at the Hellenic American University, and brief IR mass comm stints in Egypt, Romania, and Turkey during the Arab Spring.
She is an alumna of both the Rising Tide Capital’s entrepreneurship program and the Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship Corporation, two of New Jersey’s finest non-profit entrepreneurship programs. She is a former stringer reporter for the Pocono Record and interned at Mental Floss Magazine.
“Market champions must create themselves as a beacon of hope. Your audience craves authenticity in a changing world.”
— Andréa M. Garcia / Co-Founder of COMMS/NATION