Cortney Knight
Cortney Knight is a marketing strategist and creative communications professional based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. She specializes in content strategy, storytelling, digital media, and short-form video production, with a focus on translating real-life experiences into meaningful campaigns. Her work blends strategic planning with hands-on creative execution, helping organizations communicate clearly and authentically across social media, web, and video platforms.
She currently serves as a Marketing and Communications Coordinator with Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas, where she leads content planning, develops multi-channel campaigns, and produces storytelling-driven digital content, including interviews, articles, social media assets, and video features. In addition to her nonprofit work, she operates as a Digital Media Producer and Marketing Consultant through Planet Abstract, supporting brands and organizations with branding, campaign development, photography, video production, and web design. Her earlier experience also includes work in talent acquisition, project management, and communications across corporate and nonprofit environments.
Over the past decade, Cortney has built her career by turning long-standing creative interests in art, music, photography, and design into professional services. She is also a performing music artist and continues to expand her creative practice through content creation and creative direction work. A single mother to her son Icon, she balances her professional and personal life while continuing to grow her expertise, with a strong focus on storytelling-driven marketing, web design, and purpose-led creative work.
• Volunteers of America Chesapeake and Carolinas
What do you attribute your success to?
My faith definitely fuels it. We have a slogan at the church that I go to that says, we go into worship and we come out to serve. Representing just the gifts and the mindset and the love that God has given me, and how much I believe He has that for everybody else - I think that when we do good or we do our best, it can inspire somebody else to believe in themselves and to do that for themselves, and that is a chain reaction of everybody being able to be whole and actually enjoying at peace with their lives. That fuels me a lot, to serve and to know the impact serving does, not just for a quick dopamine boost, but literally, like, on a soul level, it does something to me, and it does something to the person that I'm serving.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would give advice to say, find your routine - sit with yourself, and who you are, and find the rhythm of your routine, like, what works best for you. I know that that will change the results of their life that you want to cultivate. That routine will, even if you don't stay with it forever, just starting to have a routine and to get a rhythm based off of who you are, not social media, not your parents, but how you're wired, it blossoms so many beautiful things in a woman you didn't even know was inside of you. That would be my advice.
Locations
Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas
Brandywine, MD 20613