Influential Woman · Marketing/ Digital Strategy/Nonprofit
Cortney Knight
Marketing & Communications Strategist, Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas / Planet Abstract
Lanham, MD 20716
Her Story
About Cortney
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, focused on turning real-life experiences into meaningful campaigns that connect with audiences.
She currently serves as a Marketing and Communications Coordinator with Volunteers of America Chesapeake & Carolinas, where she leads content planning and develops multi-channel campaigns across social media, web, and video. She also produces storytelling-driven content including interviews, articles, and digital features.
In addition, she operates as a Digital Media Producer and Marketing Consultant through Planet Abstract, supporting brands with branding, campaign development, photography, video production, and web design. Her background spans communications, project management, and talent acquisition across nonprofit and corporate spaces.
Over the past decade, she has turned long-standing creative interests in art, music, photography, and design into a professional practice. She is also a performing music artist and continues to expand her work in content creation and creative direction.
A single mother to her son, Icon, she balances life and work while focusing on storytelling-driven marketing, web design, and purpose-led creative work.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Cortney
01What 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.
02What 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.
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