Rita Hollingsworth, a longtime publicist for leisure purchasers and non-profit organizations, died Nov. 16 in Los Angeles. She was 61.

Her husband Jeff Hollingsworth stated she had suffered a intracerebral mind hemorrhage.

When working on the Lee Solters Company, she represented purchasers together with Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli and Neil Diamond, in addition to the Carousel of Hope and Race to Erase MS with Barbara and Nancy Davis.

After founding publicity agency RMH Media, she labored with administrators together with Robert Altman, Mike Figgis, Alan Rudolph, Michael Radford, Tim Hutton and Chen Kaige, bringing their movies to Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and different festivals.

RMH additionally represented purchasers together with bestselling creator Reyna Grande, the Angelus Student Film Festival, the Anthony & Jeannie Pritzker Family Foundation, Foster Care Counts, artworxLA and St. Vincent Meals on Wheels, the place she was a key strategist for the big senior diet program.

RMH Media is working with filmmaker Matthew Solomon on his documentary “Reimagining Safety” and with producer Catherine Gray and actress Sharon Gless, whose documentary “Show Her the Money” received a number of competition awards and shall be embarking on a 50-city tour.

Born in East Los Angeles, Hollingsworth obtained a BA from Whittier College and a double MA in Japanese Language and Diplomacy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She lived in Tokyo, the place she carried out analysis specializing in cultural change, after which had management roles in a number of civil rights organizations together with MANAA, organizing with Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition in opposition to corporations together with McDonald’s, NBC and Paramount protesting anti-Asian hate and media bias.

She is survived by her husband and enterprise accomplice Jeffrey.