::about my public relations experiences::
I:
-- specialize in consumer affairs and public affairs.
-- have worked with Old Navy, Kinko's, Kroger,
Union 76, Toys for Tots, Versace, and former
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
-- started working as a Regional Public Affairs
Coordinator with the Muscular Dystrophy
Association, where I produced the Jerry Lewis
Labor Day Telethon in Columbus, Georgia.
-- coordinated the 1999 national US Marine Corps'
Toys for Tots campaign.
-- have won three PRSA Phoenix Awards for
writing and project design, one IABC Golden
Flame for total communications program, and
one Telly Award for regional advertising.
-- coordinated the public relations activities of the
University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of
Government while serving as their Interim
Managing Editor at the CVIOG Press..
-- left public relations successes behind in Atlanta
to experience the San Francisco public relations
environment.
-- worked at Operation Access as the Director of
Public Relations and Development and saw fund
raising efforts increase by 76% after revamping
the communications program and getting
statewide media coverage.
-- left a traditional public relations position to
advance my market research skills with Pacific
Research Group.
-- have conducted focus groups for Mountain
Dew, Scope, Delta.com, Chevron, the
Democratic Partyand Zima.
-- regularly analyze data from telephone and web-
based surveys to evaluate new slogans, new
products, and commercials.
-- do volunteer research work with the San
Francisco AIDS Foundation to explore why the
HIV infection rates continue to rise in the cities'
gay and bisexual populations.
