Pamela Hanlon

Pamela Hanlon, a New York writer, is a former journalist and corporate communications executive. Most recently she was vice president-public relations for American Express Company, and earlier held senior positions with ITT Sheraton Hotels Worldwide, UAL Corporation, and Pan American World Airways. Hanlon began her career as an Associated Press reporter in Albany, New York.

She is author of "A Worldly Affair: New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond" (Fordham University Press, 2017), a history of the often rocky relationship between the world organization and the crowded metropolis that has been the UN's home for more than 70 years.

A resident of the New York City neighborhood of Turtle Bay since 1976, she has written extensively about the area. "Manhattan's Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood" (Arcadia Publishing, 2008) was her first book. A 35,000-word contemporary history of East Midtown, its sales proceeds are donated to a local community organization. She also is co-author of "The Luxembourg House on Beekman Place" (Government of Luxembourg, 2010), the history of a midtown Manhattan townhouse where songwriter Irving Berlin lived for more than forty years. She has given numerous talks about the neighborhood's history, and in 2010 was cited in the Congressional Record for her work on behalf of the Turtle Bay area.

Hanlon is a native of South Dakota and graduated from the University of Missouri Journalism School, where she has returned as a visiting professor. She chairs the Advisory Council of the Pan Am Historical Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to preserve the legacy of the former international airline.