Taleah Mona-Lusky

Taleah (she/her) is the President of Swift, a full service creative agency located in Portland, Oregon. An account management veteran, she has held key leadership roles at Cheil New York, 360i, Code & Theory, Strawberryfrog, and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners helping brands including Samsung, Maybelline, NBC Universal and Bose find creative solutions to business challenges.

Under her leadership, Swift now has 70% female-identifying leadership, 65% female-identifying employees, and 40% BIPOC and AAPI employees. She reengineered Swift’s leadership to represent a broad range of backgrounds that reflects the agency at large, including members of the BIPOC, AAPI, and LGBTQ+ communities; first generation Americans; and working parents.

Taleah works closely with 100 Roses From Concrete, a non-profit network for people of color across all ages in advertising and marketing. She serves as a mentor for #hireblack and 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) and supporter of Hue.