Betsy has nearly 25 years of experience in publishing, having previously worked in the publicity and marketing departments at Penguin Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, and Hachette Book Group. Most recently, she was the Publicity & Marketing Director at Basic Books before running her own publicity firm, Betsy DeJesu Communications. Missing the camaraderie of working on a collaborative team, Betsy joined Cave Henricks in 2022.
Betsy has worked with a wide range of titles in the general interest, big think, business, and current affairs spaces, representing leading thinkers, founders, academics, and bestselling authors, including #1 NYT bestseller and Sharon Says So creator Sharon McMahon; Iris Bohnet (Harvard Kennedy School); Siri Chilazi (Harvard Kennedy School); futurist and NYT bestselling author Martin Ford; Matt Beane (UCSB); Sabina Nawaz (former Microsoft executive); Edward Baptist (Cornell); Alison Taylor (NYU); Kevin Kruse (Princeton); renowned neurologist Richard Cytowic; Clyde Prestowitz (Economic Strategy Institute); Igor Tulchinsky (WorldQuant); Aliza Licht; and others.
She has landed coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, Salon, Daily Beast, Adam Grant’s Granted Substack, NPR, ABC News, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox Business Network, and high-level podcasts, such as Armchair Expert, The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show, Ten Percent Happier, The Daily Stoic, Futureproof, How to Be Awesome at Your Job, and others.
Betsy graduated with a degree in Political Science and English from Fairfield University. She lives in Connecticut.
When she’s not working on books, she’s reading them. Betsy loves podcasts, all animals, and chocolate chip cookies.
