About

The Topos Partnership has as its mission to explore and ultimately change the landscape of public understanding where public interest issues play out. Founded by Axel Aubrun and Joe Grady of Cultural Logic and Meg Bostrom of Public Knowledge, Topos was created to bring together the range of expertise needed to understand existing issue dynamics, explore possibilities for creating new issue understanding, develop a proven course of action, and arm advocates with new communications tools to win support.

Cutural Logic

Founded by anthropologist Axel Aubrun, Ph.D., and linguist Joseph Grady, Ph.D., brings a cognitive and social science perspective to the work of communications strategy. Cultural Logic develops strategy that takes into account basic patterns in how people think and communicate, including how understandings are transmitted both within and across cultural boundaries, how understanding and communication are shaped by universal metaphorical patterns, and the role of explanations in promoting engagement.

Public Knowledge

Founded by communications strategist Meg Bostrom, brings a unique perspective based on the varied experiences that inform public discourse on social issues including communications, public opinion analysis, advertising, and political strategy.

"Collaborating with the Topos team is an inspiration and a pleasure. Their creativity, versatility, and integrity would be assets to any communications or public engagement project. They consistently produce research findings that are both profoundly illuminating and genuinely useful. In fact, Meg, Joe, and Axel are among a small handful of innovators whose work is transforming the way progressive advocates approach messaging and movement-building challenges. They are also exceptionally generous, supportive colleagues – a joy to work with."
Priscilla Lewis
Director, the U.S. in the World project of Dēmos