McKenzie Neely-Wright
Area Manager, External Affairs
AT&T
McKenzie Neely-Wright is an Area Manager on the Greater Los Angeles External and Legislative Affairs (E&LA) team, overseeing legislative and community affairs for Los Angeles and the South Bay. She is responsible for executing local strategies that achieve corporate legislative objectives, presenting the company’s priorities and objectives to external stakeholders within her territories, along managing community partnerships with nonprofit organizations, philanthropic, corporate social responsibility, and consumer advocacy communities. She is also responsible for partnering with policymakers across her territories to aid with AT&T’s new technology deployment and infrastructure investment. For over 5 years, she has been a valuable part of the AT&T organization working in various areas of the company after joining the Leadership Development Program in 2019.
McKenzie earned an MBA from the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans and a bachelor’s degree from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. McKenzie sits on the boards of the Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce and the El Camino Community College Foundation, Women of AT&T Southern California chapter as a Vice President of Mentoring, the Corporate Advisory Board of the Brotherhood Crusade, and serves as the Steward Vice-Chair at First AME Church of Los Angeles. She and her family reside in her hometown of Los Angeles, CA.