For 25+ years, Denise Estopinal has led strategic communications, media and government relations, and community engagement for The Estopinal Group (TEG) representing Mayors, Governors, Senators, Council Presidents, City Councils, Municipal, Parish and State Governments, Utilities, Transportation Agencies, Levee Authorities, and private corporations. Our clients are as diverse as New Orleans itself. They include Corporations, Tourism and Hospitality interests, Art, Culture and Entertainment, Educational Institutions, Neighborhoods, Community Organizations, and Icon Families of New Orleans.
We are proud to highlight our work.
Through tumultuous times – 9/11, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ida, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the COVID-19 Pandemic – TEG has guided strategies to manage difficult public issues, execute visionary public works, transportation, and utility projects, implement crisis and disaster communications to accomplish impactful community engagement initiatives. Our work to solidify our clients’ brand identity and ensure their messages resonate consistently across key communications platforms is supported by a solid understanding of public sentiment and the media landscape.
Join us as we look back at a quarter-century of communications. We will roll-out new recollections all year long.
- Mayor Marc H. Morial: Renaissance of an American City
- New Orleans City Council
- Regional Planning Commission
- New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
- Krewe of Muses
- Neal Auction Company
- Christ Church Cathedral Concert: Cultural Opening of New Orleans Post-Katrina
- Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
- The Greater New Orleans Hotel & Lodging Association
- Basin St. Station
- InterContinental New Orleans
- Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative
- GulfGov Report
- The Labyrinth at Audubon Park
- Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – East
- Jefferson Parish Levee District
- St. Bernard Parish Government
- Cover the Uninsured
- The Descendants Project
- Eddie L. Sapir
- Sybil Morial & The Morial Legacy
- Marc H. Morial & The National Urban League
- The Gumbo Coalition
- The Leah and Dooky Chase Family

