Mary Cheney is a vice president of Navigators based out of the Washington, D.C., office.

A veteran corporate and political advisor, Ms. Cheney has more than 15 years of political, corporate, public affairs and strategic communications experience. 

Ms. Cheney joins Navigators from AOL, LLC.  As chief of staff to AOL’s vice chairman, Ms. Cheney directed various projects, including developing communications plans for members of senior management, developing marketing plans for various AOL portals, and working with AOL’s privacy taskforce to investigate the release of client search records.  Her work with the taskforce led her to become the vice president of Standards and Practices, where she directed the team responsible for managing issues, such as Internet privacy, child safety and the use of behavioral targeting in advertising. 

Before joining AOL, Ms. Cheney served as a senior campaign aide in both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.  She held the position of special assistant to the Vice Presidential Nominee during the Bush-Cheney 2000 presidential race, and served as director of vice presidential operations for the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential reelection campaign, where she directed all aspects of vice presidential operations, including messaging, events, budget, staffing and scheduling.

From 1994–2000, Ms. Cheney was at Coors Brewing Company, where she held several managerial communications and public relations positions.  As corporate relations manager, she developed and implemented a plan to effectively end a 20-year boycott of Coors products by the gay and lesbian community.  She was also responsible for the development of creative, long-term strategies for managing environmental and alcohol-related issues. 

In 2006, Newsweek magazine profiled Ms. Cheney as one of the next generation of women leaders. 

Ms. Cheney is the author of Now It’s My Turn: A Daughter’s Chronicle of Political Life, a book that portrays the ups and downs of life inside political campaigns.

Ms. Cheney received her Bachelor of Arts in History from Colorado College and a Master in Business Administration from the Daniels Business School at the University of Denver.