Meet Creative
The staff at Camino Creative is diverse and bold. Read about their backgrounds and ambitions, and how they approach #PRforGood.
Mia Toledo
Director and Chief Editor
Mia Toledo is a multimedia artist based in Chelsea engaging with a range of social awareness issues across nonprofit, for-profit and government sectors to help clients pursue their mission and improve conditions for communities around the world. Her art practice is driven by sustainability, the diasporic Mexican experience, femininity and religion. She was part of the Camino Creative launch team and holds a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in History of Art from Cornell University.
Tomás Reimer
Senior Designer, Production Manager
Tomás oversees the production of creative assignments from concept to implementation, spearheads both Camino and Camino Creative’s brand identity, as well as provides design expertise and support for the firm at large. He is an artist and illustrator based in New York City, creating works that center on justice and cultural narratives, exploring stories we tell about ourselves. He graduated from Cornell University with a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in American Studies.
Margot Demus
Marketing Manager and Writer
Margot Demus is a writer, editor, and academic. She utilizes her background in English and Feminist studies—20th & 21st-century American Literature plus Black Feminist Theory—to theorize over, write, and edit long-form prose and short copy.
Most recently, Margot was brought on as an Associate at Camino Creative—a lauded public relations firm with a concentration on progressive nonprofit clients, including many leading national organizations and foundations. On par with Margot’s interests, the firm’s issue specialties include civil rights, women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health, too.
Olivia Aylmer
Research Editor
Olivia Aylmer is a writer, editor, and producer who is passionate about multimedia projects rooted in curiosity and connectivity. As a freelance arts & culture writer, she also organizes alongside her fellow media workers to improve industry-wide labor conditions through the Freelance Solidarity Project, the digital media division of the National Writers Union.
At Camino Creative, Olivia works collaboratively and independently to analyze the media landscape and deliver high-quality editorial products across many formats to the agency's nonprofit clients focused on advancing human and civil rights, sexual and reproductive health, labor and economic rights, immigration, climate justice, and LGBTQ rights.
Prior to joining Camino, she managed communications for Vanity Fair, worked in the publicity department of Little, Brown and Company, and most recently, held a development & editorial staff role at AIR, the Association of Independents in Radio. In 2021, Olivia developed and produced the investigative-slash-documentary podcast series Viewers Like Us (co-hosted by Grace Lee, a Peabody-winning independent filmmaker, and multimedia journalist Akintunde Ahmad), which explores who gets to tell America’s stories on PBS and envisions a more equitable, inclusive, and vibrant future for public media nationwide.
Raised in Queens and currently based in Brooklyn, she is a 2015 graduate of Barnard College, where she studied English and Dance.
Sydney Kilcoyne
Associate
Sydney Kilcoyne is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work examines our culture’s relationships with grief, violation, and media. Sydney’s values tightly align with the mission of Camino Creative, where she works as an associate. She sees art as a tool for justice and empathy. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in Writing, Literature, and Politics; she also holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis.
Meredith Carbonell
Data Specialist and Project Manager
Meredith Carbonell is a researcher and data enthusiast. Her research interests include
extremism, mass atrocities, and social movements. She is also a trained mediator and negotiator. Meredith has years of experience tracking mass atrocities, political violence, and extremism using social media and other open-source data. She has conducted fieldwork research in Colombia, Uganda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, and Jordan. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in French. At Camino, Meredith conducts research and data collection. She also helps establish new client
communication and works on several internal projects. Meredith has a MS in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from Columbia University, a MSc in Sociology and Global Change from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA from New York University in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Human Rights and Genocide
Studies.
