Cheryl L. Duncan is a public relations industry veteran whose passion and expertise have helped her create a firm celebrated for its diverse roster of clients. In 2005, she founded Cheryl Duncan & Company, Inc., a New York City-area boutique PR agency specializing in entertainment and social betterment. Cheryl’s many arts and culture projects run the gamut from stage to film to television to music and fine arts, and include event production and management and crisis communications. In 2020, she was named to Observer’s PR Power 50 and in 2021 she was selected for Crain’s New York Business’s Notable Black Leaders and Executives list. She is a member of the Female Founder Collective.
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Cheryl L. Duncan is a public relations industry veteran whose passion and expertise have helped her create a firm celebrated for its diverse roster of clients. In 2005, she founded Cheryl Duncan & Company, Inc., a New York City-area boutique PR agency specializing in entertainment and social betterment. Cheryl’s many arts and culture projects run the gamut from stage to film to television to music and fine arts, and include event production and management and crisis communications. In 2020, she was named to Observer’s PR Power 50 and in 2021 she was selected for Crain’s New York Business’s Notable Black Leaders and Executives list. She is a member of the Female Founder Collective.
Cheryl has handled Broadway shows (including “A Strange Loop,” “for colored girls...,” “The Trip to Bountiful” and “Holler If Ya Hear Me”) and other theater pieces (including Nathaniel Sam Shapiro’s “Diaspora”). For more than 15 years she has handled the New York African Film Festival at Film Society of Lincoln Center. She’s promoted “It’s Showtime at the Apollo” and the Peabody Award-winning “180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School” (PBS). In music, she has publicized the Essence Music Festival. She was honored to represent Prince and to help get Miles Davis inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, working with The Terrie Williams Agency, for which she served as lead consultant for many years.
Alex Haley’s “ROOTS: The 30th Anniversary Edition,” Gordon Parks’ autobiography “A Hungry Heart,” former Ziegfeld Girl Doris Eaton Travis’ “The Days We Danced” and Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz's “But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups” are among the book titles she’s promoted; also Essence magazine. Cheryl is experienced in fine arts as well, and has publicized eMerge: Danny Simmons & Artists on the Cusp. and other exhibitions.
Cheryl’s work in the arts extends to event production and includes serving as co-executive producer for the “National Puerto Rican Day Parade Cultural Tribute” and as co-producer of Sejong Soloists’ 2007 benefit concert honoring U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
Since founding her firm, Cheryl has been the steady hand guiding the public image for numerous New York City nonprofits, including African Film Festival, Inc., the City College Center for the Arts, National Black Theatre, Sejong Soloists string ensemble and Black Public Media and she has represented Howard University and the Reginald F. Lewis Foundation.
A Howard University graduate and Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholar, she has done crisis communications for the Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn (now anchored by the Barclays Center), ACORN, and Central Presbyterian Church.
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