ABOUT BUOY
On a mission to advance your mission.
Buoy is a results-focused communications and creative agency helping mission-driven organizations build dynamic brands and campaigns. We partner with nonprofits, governments, and small businesses to provide strategy, content, design, and digital support.
We drive meaningful change.
Buoy works with clients in numerous sectors and stages of development — from individuals just launching their businesses to public service organizations with a storied history in their communities.
Areas of Specialty
Nonprofit organizations • Education • Early childhood • Economic mobility • Children + youth • Higher education institutions • Workforce development • Social justice • Collective impact + place-based partnerships • Healthcare • Disability rights • Racial equity • Fiscal sponsorships • Municipal + state government agencies • Community development • Foundations • Social impact consultant brand-building
Meet Our Team
Buoy is a woman-owned, majority-BIPOC-led, and intersectional-as-all-get-out small business working to support causes that improve our world.
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Gretchen Wieland
OWNER + FOUNDER
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AJ Favors
CREATIVE STRATEGIST + DESIGNER
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Allison Moore
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
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Amrita Nandagopal
WEB DEVELOPER + UX/UI DESIGNER
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Andrea Williams
CREATIVE STRATEGIST + DESIGNER
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Casielle Santos-Gaerlan
ILLUSTRATOR
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Heather Ordway
PROJECT MANAGER
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Lucy Andersen
CREATIVE STRATEGIST + DESIGNER
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Ruya Norton
COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST + DIGITAL MANAGER
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Sal Ibarra
WEB DEVELOPER + UX/UI DESIGNER