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CLAIRE APPLEWHITE
Author
Claire Applewhite
13074 Starbuck Rd, St. Louis, MO 63141
(314) 560-2906
Websites:
www.smokinggunpublishing.com,
www.claireapplewhite.com.,
www.clairedunoir.com
Claire Applewhite, mystery writer and Acquisitions Editor for Smoking Gun Publishing, LLC, is a graduate of St. Louis University. Her published books include The Wrong Side of Memphis, Crazy For You, St. Louis Hustle, Candy Cadillac and Tennessee Platesand the Doctor's Tale. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Applewhite has served as a Past President of the Missouri Writers Guild and Board member of the Midwest Chapter, Mystery Writers of America. Organizational memberships include the St. Louis Metropolitan Press Club, St. Louis Writers Guild, Sisters in Crime, Ozark Writers League and Active member, Mystery Writers of America.
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PEGGY BARNHART
Commissioner
St. Louis County Board of Election
Peggy Barnhart
St. Louis County Board of Election
Peggy Barnhart
Peggy Barnhart, a strategic communications professional, and a current commissioner on St. Louis County Board of Election, she is responsible for election oversight, including County ballot issues, voter registration and education, and election reporting, budget and efficiency.
Previously, Barnhart was director of communications and government relations for the American Red Cross. She also served in communications and community relations for two U.S. Senators: Christopher S. Bond and James M. Talent, and in the office of County Council Representative Edith Cunnane. Other career highlights include working for Peabody Energy as community relations manager. She also has worked as the public relations consultant for the City of Olivette, and as a freelance writer for Sverdrup Corporation and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Prior to returning to St. Louis, she was a news reporter for the Grand Rapids Press and the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Barnhart is a graduate of Northwestern University, one of the nation’s top-ranked journalism schools, with a Master of Science in Journalism.
JOAN LEE BERKMAN
President
Face Watchers
Joan Lee Berkman
(314) 799-1204
Joan Berkman is a marketing, public relations and special events professional. Her firm, Face Watchers, which she founded in 2004, provides customized, strategic communications for a number of local, regional and national clients. As the former Executive Director of External Affairs for Southwestern Bell Telephone (now AT&T), she managed government and community relations for Eastern Missouri and represented the company as a lobbyist in St. Louis County, Jefferson City and Washington D.C. Other career highlights include co-authoring a book with her mother, Eleanor, a well-known St. Louis drama coach, on dealing with destructive personalities at work, socially and at home resulting in a nationwide book tour. She currently writes a no-nonsense business advice column for Town & Style Magazine entitled "The Velvet Hammer." Berkman earned her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
ARLENE MAMINTA BROWNE
Principal
Robust Solutions
Arlene Maminta Browne
5 Country Club Terrace, Kirkwood, MO 63122
(314) 324-8982
Arlene Maminta Browne, Principal of Robust Solutions, which provides strategic communications and community development for select small to mid-size businesses, has been named to the Board of the St. Louis Press Club. Current clients include Once Films, a nationally recognized boutique film production company focused on documentary-style short films for healthcare organizations, not-for-profit organizations, financial services, and more. In addition, Browne is an owner of Robust, a unique wine experience in Webster Groves, and has handled its marketing, public relations, and social media for the past 15 years earning a reputation as an award-winning restaurateur and numerous accolades over the years for "Restaurant of the Year" to "Best Wine Bar" from numerous media outlets such as St. Louis Magazine, Sauce, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Feast.
With more than 20 years of experience in the field of marketing, public relations, social media, networking and development, Browne has managed highly effective local and national campaigns in the political arena, the fitness industry, not-for-profit organizations and small to mid-size businesses with a special emphasis in the food and wine industry. National campaigns include True Fitness, The Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG Brand Initiative, and The John Volpi Company/Volpi Foods, Inc.
A seasoned professional, Browne has developed valuable media relationships and successfully coordinated promotions and placements in top tier national publications and tv/cable networks, as well as, in other regional and local media. She has implemented and maintained cutting edge, highly effective social media campaigns, and has experience in brand-licensing and sales development.
Browne received her BA in English & Communications at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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JESSICA Z. BROWN
Founder and President, Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc.
Adjunct Professor, Webster University
Adjunct Lecturer, University College at Washington University
Jessica Z. Brown
Jessica Z. Brown, community connector, media literacy proponent and educator, often speaks to professional and parent groups on the importance of on-going media literacy education as a
vehicle toward economic development and healthy communities. She is founder and president of Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc., adjunct professor at Webster University,
adjunct lecturer at University College at Washington University in St. Louis, and an award-winning communications professional with more than 30 years experience, including newspaper
reporting/ photography, television news and production, video production, corporate marketing communications, customer-service management and education consulting.
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BOB COHN
Editor/Publisher Emeritus
Saint Louis Jewish Light
Bob Cohn
(314) 743-3667 Bob Cohn is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus for the St. Louis Jewish Light where he began working in 1969. He retired as Editor-in-Chief/Publisher in 2004, but still contributes editorials, major articles, theatrical and book reviews and hard news. Bob graduated from Washington University with degrees in English, philosophy, political science and the Washington University Law School with a Doctor of Law degree. He worked as Administrative Assistant, Staff Attorney, Press Secretary and Speech writer for the late Lawrence R. Ross, then St. Louis County Supervisor (Executive). Bob has won numerous local and national awards for his journalism and community service, including the "Rockower Award for Excellence in North American Jewish Journalism", two lifetime achievement awards from the American Jewish Press Association of which he is a past president, among others.
Bob is currently Chairman of the St. Louis County Human Rights Commission and Board Chairman and Immediate Past President of the Press Club. He also teaches at the Jewish Community High School, CAJE Adult Studies, a film class for OASIS and the Jewish Community Center, and a course at Washington University on Middle East reporting and commentary. Bob and his wife Barbara reside in Clayton, and are the parents of three children, and have five grandchildren.
ALLISON HAWK COLLINGER
AHC Consulting
Allison Hawk Collinger
9200 Olive Blvd, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63132 (314) 994-7676
A sought-after speaker, connector, big thinker and trainer, Collinger has been behind some of the St. Louis regions’ key initiatives and celebrations including generating support for two professional sports venues in downtown St. Louis (Edward Jones Dome and Scottrade Center), returning professional football to St. Louis, opening the region’s light rail system, being responsible for two Super Bowl Post-Parties, and rebranding the Spirit of St. Louis Marathon and Family Fitness Weekend into GO! St. Louis. Her vision and commitment has been responsible for connecting multiple individuals and organizations, including creation of the Diversity Awareness Partnership, and the Healthy Youth Partnership.
Collinger’s company provides “What if?” strategic communications, collaboration and branding services to a range of clients as well as a popular Social Media workshop series, geared to empowering attendees to learn, freshen and incorporate social media tools to strengthen stakeholder engagement. Formerly vice president of Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. and executive at the St. Louis Rams, she has received three Silver Anvils from the Public Relations Society of America, the highest award bestowed on communications professionals. The St. Louis Business Journal named her to the 40 Under 40 list in 2001.
Collinger holds a B.A. from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, is a former Coro Fellow in Public Affairs and a graduate of the 1996-1997 Leadership St. Louis program.
SUZANNE CORBETT
Freelance Food, Travel Writer & Author
Food & Travel Editor STLSportsPage.com
Food History Editor RealFoodTravler.com
Suzanne Corbett
Suzanne Corbett is a national award-winning writer and media producer. She currently contributes St Louis Post-Dispatch, News Magazine Network, StLouisSportsPage.com, AAA Traveler and Journey Magazines and RealFoodTravler.com. Past publication credits include travel/food editor St Louis Globe Democrat.com, food editor PrimeLife Media, Better Homes & Gardens, Sauce, Victoria Magazine, St. Louis At Home, St. Louis Homes & Lifestyles, St. Louis Town & Style and Midwest Living. In addition Suzanne has been a frequent guest on KMOX and FoodTalkSTL radio and has served as the host and producer of Hot Plates that aired on KSLG 1030AM in addition to serving as a food historian/living history foodways interpreter with the JNEM/National Parks.
Suzanne is the author of the award winning cookbooks The Gilded Table: Recipes and Table History from the Campbell House and Pushcarts & Stalls: The Soulard Market History Cookbook. She is also the winner of two Telly Awards, a Davey Award, the recipient of NATJA Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. In addition, Suzanne has been honored with the Missouri Media Award from the Department of Agriculture Missouri Wine and Grape Program, named Travel Writer of the Year by Mississippi Tourism, and the received the Quest Award from the MIssouri Professional Communicators (National Federation of Press Women’s Missouri affiliate) that recognizes individuals whose work reflects an enduring quest for the highest standards of professional ethics and excellence.
Suzanne holds a BA and MA in Media Communications from Webster University. She is a member of North American Travel Journalists, National Federation of Press Women, Midwest Travel Writers, International Food, Wine And Travel Writers Association, the Association of Food Journalists, Les Dames d’Escoffier International and is a Certified Culinary Professional with the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
BECKY DOMYAN
SVP/Market Manager
Enterco
Becky Domyan
1220 Olive St, 3rd Floor,
St. Louis, MO 63103
Cell: (314) 494-4490
Becky Domyan is a Business Marketing graduate from the University of Missouri - Columbia. Becky started her management career working for Enterprise Holdings upon graduation in 2001. Becky moved up the ranks quickly at Enterprise as a Management Trainee, Branch Manager, and Recruiting Supervisor. Enterprise sparked a passion for sales in Becky, and thus she started with Emmis Communications in St. Louis as an Account Manager in 2006, and received several awards for New Business acquisition and outstanding sales performance. After a track record of success in sales, Becky was promoted quickly to General Sales Manager, and then Director of Sales for the Emmis STL Cluster in 2016. Becky led the STL cluster in record breaking revenue performance and excellence during her time as Director of Sales.
In 2018, two of the Emmis St. Louis stations under Becky’s oversight were acquired by Entercom Communications. Through this acquisition, Becky was promoted to the new SVP/Market Manager of the new Entercom STL Cluster that included combining 3 previous CBS, and the 2 Emmis Stations together as one organization. Becky quickly built a fantastic culture with a strategic vision, mission, and winning mindset. In 2020, Entercom acquired the Urban One St. Louis stations, and Becky brought these brands over into the Entercom portfolio. Amidst the global pandemic In 2020, Becky brought everyone together in unique and innovative ways to continue to optimize as a team; without being able to be in the same physical location.
Becky has received many honors and awards throughout her career including awards for New Business excellence, Digital Achievement, Talent Recruitment and Retention, and Mentorship. Becky was selected during her time at Emmis as an “Emerging Leader”; and also was selected to be in the High Potential Leaders Program at the Wharton School during at Entercom. Becky has also held positions on many St. Louis community boards including, Heat Up St. Louis, Women of Achievement, and The St. Louis Sports Commission. Becky’s current brand oversight as SVP/Market Manager of Entercom includes: KMOX, 97.1 FM TALK, Y98, 102.5 KEZK, HOT 104.1, and 96.3 R&B for The Lou.
Becky attracts the best talent, is a difference maker, visionary leader, has a positive influence on teams, and has a passion for making a difference in our community. She has been leading teams to success her entire career through her dynamic and energetic influence.
Becky lives in the St. Louis area with her husband Mark and three children.
THOMAS ESCHEN
Vice President
Institutional Advancement for Maryville University
Thomas Eschen
650 Maryville University Dr, Ganer Hall, Room 222, St. Louis, MO 63141(314) 529-9343
Thomas Eschen is Vice Chancellor for University Advancement at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has over 27 years of experience in development in positions at Washington University, Webster University, Lindenwood University, KWMU 90.7 FM and DeSmet Jesuit High School, as well as in teaching. He has served on numerous non-profit boards including River Styx, Double Helix, Black Cat theater, Mary Queen of Peace Parish, and The St. Louis Regional Chapter of the AFP (NSFRE). Escehn has a Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a teaching certificate from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and a masters degree in communications from Saint Louis University.
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SUSAN FADEM
Susan Fadem
JULIE HAIL FLORY
Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications
Washington University
Julie Hail Flory
Flory became vice chancellor April 1, 2021 after serving as Washington University interim vice chancellor for public affairs, providing strategic communications leadership and overseeing creative services, digital strategy, marketing and brand strategy, media relations, social media, strategic initiatives, university news and the publication of Washington magazine. Flory also is a member of the chancellor's executive cabinet.
Since coming to Washington University in 2014, she has led or played a key role in communications for the school's participation in the U.S. Presidential Debate in 2016 and the inauguration of university Chancellor Andrew D. Martin in 2019. She has led communications regarding various critical issues, including the university's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the school's commitment to racial equity.
Flory has more than two decades of experience in higher education public relations and communications. Prior to joining Washington University, she spent 13 years at the University of Notre Dame as assistant director, then associate director for news and information, and then director of public relations. She previously had worked for seven years as a television news reporter and anchor in Colorado, Idaho and Indiana.
Flory earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from San José State University and her master’s degree in American culture studies from Washington University. She also is a graduate of the Strategic Leaders Executive Education Program at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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CARLA FREIMAN (FEUER)
Carla Freiman (Feuer)
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ELLEN FUTTERMAN
Editor
The St. Louis Jewish Light
Ellen Futterman
#6 Millstone, St. Louis, MO 63141
After a distinguished 25-year career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, award-winning journalist and former daily features editor Ellen Futterman joined Twist as a vice president in October 2007. She manages several of the marketing firm’s cultural and business accounts along with generating and developing new business.
Ellen joined the Post-Dispatch in 1982 as a general assignment reporter. Her previous journalism experience includes stints at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Belleville News-Democrat.
During her tenure at the Post, Ellen worked as a news reporter, feature writer, columnist, movie critic and critic-at-large. She won major local and national awards for her reporting on “Women Who Kill,” about battered women, and for a four-part series about teenage pregnancy, “Children Having Children.”
In 1995, Ellen started the paper’s weekly entertainment magazine, Get Out, now called GO, and served as its editor. In 2001, she was named Everyday Editor and supervised the paper’s daily feature sections before taking a paper-wide buyout in September 2007.
Ellen teaches journalism and film at Webster and Washington universities and serves on the Board of Directors of Student Media Inc. at Washington University. She is married to Jeff Burkett and has three children.
AMANDA GALLOWAY
Freelance special events and public relations
Amanda Galloway
407 Lee Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119
(314) 590-0544
Amanda Galloway is a freelance journalist and PR professional who has spent her career working with some of St. Louis' most renowned movers and shakers. She currently writes for the St. Louis Business Journal, the Webster Kirkwood Times, and the South County Times. Her public relations client list includes The Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch, The Old Webster Jazz Festival, and Jakala US.
Amanda lives in Webster Groves with her husband, Brian, and their four year old son, Michael.
RICHARD GAVATIN
Consultant, Information Management Solutions, Inc.
Richard Gavatin
Office: (314) 432-0997 | Cell: (314) 283-2081
Richard Gavatin was the webmaster of the Press Club web site through 2007. He designs and maintains web sites and has been an editor, writer and publisher during his entire adult life. In his youth, during his Pharmacy education he was the driving force of his Student Magazine back when “Copy and paste” literally meant “copy and paste” . He has been the editor of numerous print and on-line newsletters during the 80’s and 90’s and when the new media of web publishing started he was there from the very beginning. He has authored books, articles, blogs and many other written publications, including a translation from English to his native Swedish.
He is now an independent consultant, a database professional, and Technical Trainer. His involvement with the Press Club started in 2006 and has included, in addition to the web site (comprising of the creation of a system to accept credit card payments), co-chairing the By-Law committee and conducted several workshops on Web Site design and Social Media.
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MARGARET GILLERMAN
Reporter
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Margaret Gillerman
900 N. Tucker Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63101(314) 340-8000
Margaret Gillerman has worked as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 28 years. She has covered most beats and written many hundreds of news and feature stories about people and governments throughout the metropolitan area. She was awarded the Newspaper Guild's Terry Hughes award for her work. Some of her favorite assignments over the years have been covering the people and issues of East St. Louis and the personal stories of people affected by the Flood of 1993.
Gillerman, a St. Louis native, grew up in Olivette and attended Ladue schools. She has a bachelor's degree in English and History from the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in University City with her husband, political reporter Mark Schlinkmann.
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WILLIAM GREENBLATT
Photographer
UPI
William Greeenblatt
20 Nantucket Ln, St. Louis, MO 63132-4135(314) 554-1000
William Greenblatt has provided photography services for over thirty years-both as a staff photographer for United Press International and as owner of Wm. Greenblatt Photography, LLC. Greenblatt clients include commercial, industrial, Public Relations, Advertising and Non Profit agencies. His expertise is special events; news making opportunities; professional and collegiate sporting events features in Missouri and other areas in the United States. Greenblatt is also the official photographer for elected officials on the national, state, and local level.
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MIRAN HALEN
Miran Halen
Spearheads fundraising activities by providing innovative and collaborative volunteer leadership
for a diverse and vibrant range of non-profit organizations that promote performing arts
throughout the St. Louis region. Proven success in creating, directing, managing, and executing
media relations plans, to include photography and videography production. Versatile soprano
of opera, symphony, chamber, and recital music.
DENNIS HEINZE
Regional Editor
AAA Missouri
Dennis Heinze
12901 N Forty Dr, St. Louis, MO 63141
After graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1990 with a bachelor of Journalism degree, Heinze worked for the North County Suburban Journal as a reporter, covering city councils, school boards, crime and more. He then joined AAA Missouri to work for the AAA Midwest Traveler and AAA Southern Traveler as a writer, editor and designer. He produces the AAA employee newsletter and helps various departments with their editorial and graphic needs, producing newspaper ads, postcards, flyers, banners, and posters. In addition. he is the company photographer, and shoots b-roll video for a monthly company video program.
DENISE HOLLINSHED
Crime/General Assignment Reporter
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Denise Hollinshed
Denise Hollinshed is a crime/General Assignment Reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since September, 1998. Prior to that she worked as a crime reporter with the Belleville News-Democrat from 1990 to 1998 before joining the Post-Dispatch. She took graduate courses at Lindenwood University in St. Charles toward a graduate degree in Journalism/Mass Communications. She received her B.S. Degree in Journalism from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville with a minor in Business Marketing in 1990. An Associate of Arts degree/ Mass Communications from St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley in 1987. Produce and write news and feature articles for the largest metropolitan newspaper in St. Louis for 17 years. Specializes in writing stories on crime, housing trends, children issues, poverty, affirmative action, race and ethnicity, social issues, government and schools. I also videography and photograph at crime scenes to help tell the stories that appear in my internet reporting. Owner and Operator of Eagle Eye Alpaca and Llama Haven, a traveling petting zoo since 2008. I'm currently writing children books based on my petting zoo characters in my traveling petting zoo, Eagle Eye Alpaca and Llama Haven pettingzoohaven.com.
JEANE JAE
Vice President of Communications
Humane Society of Missouri
Longmeadow Rescue Ranch Animal Medical Center of Mid-America1201 Macklind Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110
(314) 951-1517 | www.hsmo.org
As Vice President of Communications for the Humane Society of Missouri, Jeane Jae is responsible for getting the word out about and garnering support for the work of the largest animal welfare organization in the Midwest. She is a very experienced communicator working in her career for publications, radio, hospitals and higher education, in addition to animal welfare. For more than 20 years she provided communications and marketing services to St. Louis Community College and also taught advertising, business and marketing. At one point, she provided executive search consulting services for the city manager position for the City of Webster Groves. Jeane is a life-long Missourian. She grew up in Hannibal, attended the University of Missouri-Columbia and SIU-Edwardsville and has worked in St. Louis her entire career. She has been a member and officer of numerous professional organizations,served as an officer for two scholarship foundations and has served as a court appointed special advocate guardian ad litem. She has two adult children and lives in Grantwood Village.
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AUDREY KROHNGOLD-PRYWITCH
Vice President
News KTVI-KPLR
Audrey Krohngold-Prywitch
In 2001 Audrey joined KTVI-KPLR as Assistant News Director and in 2008 became Vice President of News. Previously was at KMOV as Morning News Executive Producer and before that was a producer for San Diego's KFMB. She holds a BA in Journalism from Ohio State University. She is married to Rick (Powers) Prywitch, Fox Sports Midwest Program Director; and has three adult children.
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KENT MARTIN
Communications Consultant
Kent Martin
Cell: (314) 277-5277
Kent Martin has been a journalist and communicator as far back as grade school, when he edited his sixth grade newspaper.
Martin graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and then worked on the staff of the school while studying for a master's degree. He left after five years to head for St. Louis for a job as a reporter with KMOX Radio. His work garnered numerous national honors, including the George Foster Peabody award, a regional Emmy, the Champion-Tuck Award for financial reporting, the National Association of Science Writers and the National Association of Black Journalists award for best newspaper feature.
He is currently employed in the field of public relations. Martin has worked for numerous non-profits throughout his career, including the March of Dimes and the Family Resource Center in St. Louis. He also served pro bono as volunteer communications director for the National D-Day Memorial Foundation in Bedford, VA.
Martin is a member of the St. Louis chapter of the Public Relations Society of America; QEBH, a national honorary society; and the St. Louis Press Club.
JOSEPH E. MARTINEAU
Lawyer
Lewis Rice, LLC
Joe Martineau
600 Washington Ave,
Suite 2500,
St. Louis, Missouri 63101-1311Direct: (314) 444.7729 | Fax: (314) 612.7729
www.lewisrice.com
Joseph E. Martineau focuses his practice on media and communications law as well as intellectual property law, health law litigation, and complex commercial litigation. His clients include local and national major media representatives. Joe has tried cases in both the state and federal courts in Missouri and Illinois, and he has argued cases in the appellate and Supreme Courts in each state.
Joe writes articles and publications in the fields of defamation and invasion of privacy law, the First Amendment, and media law in general. An adjunct professor at Washington University for 20 years, he teaches a course on communications law. Furthermore, Joe frequently appears on panels and conferences dealing with media law issues, and he authored the Missouri Bar CLE Tort Law chapters on Defamation, Invasion of Privacy, and Reputational Damages.
Joe was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2005-2021. Additionally, he was named by Best Lawyers "St. Louis Litigation - First Amendment Lawyer of the Year" for 2012, 2016, 2019, and 2021 and "St. Louis Media Lawyer of the Year" for 2017. He was selected for inclusion in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® 2009-2019, and he is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Joe is the head of the Firm's Media Practice Committee.
Joseph E. Martineau, a lawyer for Lewis Rice, LLC, specializes in media and communications law, intellectual property law, health law litigation, and complex commercial litigation. Martineau’s clients include local and national major media, and he has argued cases in state and federal courts in Missouri and Illinois, including the Supreme Courts of each state.
Martineau also is an adjunct professor at Washington University, University College, where he has taught a communications law course for the past 20 years.
He has appeared on panels and at conferences on media law issues and writes in publications about the First Amendment and related subjects. He wrote the Missouri Bar Continuing Legal Education Tort Law chapters on defamation, privacy and reputational damages.
Martineau was selected by his peers for inclusion in "The Best Lawyers in America" 2005-2021 and was named "St. Louis Litigation-First Amendment Lawyer of the Year" for 2012, 2016, 2019, and 2021. Among other honors, he was "St. Louis Media Lawyer of the Year" in 2017.
DOUG MOORE
Reporter
Doug Moore
Doug is the Diversity and Demographics reporter covering race, census trends, the LGBTQ community, disability rights, refugee resettlement, immigration reform, the aging population and other minority issues. Also, member, organizing committee of Post-Dispatch Mentor Program, helping young journalists meet their goals. Is President, Missouri chapter, The Association of LGBTQ Journalists; Member, St. Louis University Communication Advisory Board, Department of Communications; andRecording Secretary, United Media Guild, representing union employees at the Post-Dispatch and other publications. Holds a Mass Communications B.A. from Missouri Southern State University.
MATT MURPHY
Communications Director
Carpenters’ District Council
Since 2013, Matt Murphy has served as communications director for the Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis, a 22,000-member trade union serving professionals in the construction industry. He oversees content for the Carpenters’ quarterly newsletter, website, social media and video productions, as well as supervising media relations and special events management. Formerly, Murphy was the public information officer for St. Louis Circuit Court, press secretary to St. Louis City Aldermanic President James Shrewsbury; reporter/editor for the Suburban Journals Newspaper and a broadcast journalist for numerous Missouri radio stations including KMOX and KTRS. He is a graduate of SIU-Edwardsville and the Broadcast Center.
PAM NIEHAUS
Communications Consultant, Community Volunteer
Pam Niehaus
131 Portland Terrace, St. Louis, MO 63119
(314) 968-1042
Pam Niehaus is a retired communications executive and current community volunteer. She served as director of communications for St. Louis Community College until 2004, and was responsible for marketing, advertising, public information and graphic design. Earlier in her career she was a writer and editor for two local publications, St. Louis Magazine and St. Louis Home and Garden Magazine. Her freelance work has included projects in education, interior design and architecture topics. In addition to her membership on the Press Club board, Pam serves on the board of the Webster Community Arts Foundation and the Webster Groves Business Development Commission. She was previously active in the St. Louis Chapter of Women in Communications Inc. and served a term as WICI president. Awards she has won individually or as part of a communications team include: the Silver Anvil, Public Relations Society of America; various citations, Council for Advancement and Support of Education; and other local advertising awards. Pam is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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CHARLOTTE VM OTTLEY
Market Development Strategist
Charlotte Ottley
4400 Lindell Blvd, Suite 7J, St. Louis, MO 63108(314) 776-1919
Charlotte VM Ottley has an eclectic and accomplished personal and professional background as a university instructor, EMMY Award winning media executive, producer and on-air talent with CBS- and NBC-owned television stations in both St. Louis and New York tri-state areas. She is currently a columnist for the Ladue News entitled: The C Suite Business Notes and a speech writer for numerous corporate executives. Ottley has represented over 265 history makers with new edge strategies and has authored three books. The most recent book is “Surviving Success*Changes, Challenges, Choices". Donald Trump selected Ottley for inclusion in his book "The Best Advice I Ever Received," as did Ambassador Rev. SJ Cook for her book: "Sister Strength". Formerly the President of the National Broadcast Association of Community Affairs, she is the recipient of numerous honors, including the President';s Game Changers Award from the NAACP, 4 Emmy Awards, as well as the first African American Alumni of the Year at SIU Carbondale's School of Communications. Among her most prestigious honors has been the dedication of a 4,500 sq. ft. building named in her honor: the Charlotte Merritts-Ottley Transitional Women's Center. Ottley holds a Master's Degree in Communications from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and a Certificate for Executive Management from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University in association with the National Minority Supplier Council, which honored her with their National Tier I Business Achievement Award. Additionally, she has a Certificate of Clinical Competence and a Certificate in the Healing Arts from the State of Missouri. As a board member of the St. Louis Metropolitan Press Club she chairs the film and photography membership committee.
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GLENDA PARTLOW
Executive Director (Former)
St. Louis Press Club
Glenda Partlow
Glenda Partlow was formerly with the St. Louis Public Schools as the the communication specialist and, most recently, divisional assistant for the Division of School Partnership Programs and Volunteer Services. While with the city schools, she received national and local awards for outstanding partnership-in-education programming that brought community resources into instructional activities shared by city and county students as an adjunct component of the desegregation settlement plan. Earlier in her career, Partlow was director of publications and public relations at what was then Lindenwood Colleges, public relations manager at KFUO, and managing editor of the St. Louis Bar Journal. She received her Bachelor’s degree in advertising and public relations from Florida State University and did graduate work in educational administration at University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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CHARLOTTE PETTY
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Webster University’s Graduate School of Communications
Adjunct Instructor, University of Missouri at St. Louis, Pierre Laclede Honors College and College of Fine Arts’ Department of Communications
Charlotte Petty
Charlotte Petty is an adjunct assistant professor at Webster University’s Graduate School of Communications and adjunct instructor, at the University of Missouri at St. Louis in the Pierre Laclede Honors College and the College of Fine Arts’ Department of Communications.
Previously, Charlotte was editor and publisher of The Spanish Lake Word newspaper, an analyst and project manager for MasterCard International and communications specialist for Anheuser-Busch.
She received her Master’s in Communications from Webster University and Bachelor’s in Communications from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
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ALVIN A. REID
City Editor
St. Louis American
Alvin A. Reed
(314) 533-8000
Alvin Reid is city editor of the St. Louis American, the state's largest African-American newspaper. The American has been voted the best African American Newspaper in the nation five of the last 10 years, and won the national competition in June 2005.
Along with his news responsibilities, Reid writes a weekly Major League Baseball - St. Louis Cardinals column, and was honored by the Missouri Press Association as Best Sports Columnist in 2004 and 1999. He is co-author of the book, "Whitey's Boys: A Celebration of the 1982 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals."
Reid is former co-host of the interview/discussion show "In The Loop" that won a regional Emmy Award in October 2002. He is also a frequent guest commentator on KETC-PBS' most-popular local television show, Donnybrook and is a contributor to the show, "Living St. Louis." He has also appeared on ESPN "Outside the Lines" and on "The Tony Kornheiser Show" on ESPN Radio.
Reid began his career at the Danville (Ill.) Commercial News where he planned and wrote a series on Proposition 48 which won several national awards. Reid is a former business editor of the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, a state editor at the Arkansas (Little Rock) Gazette and served as senior editor of Emerge magazine after three years with USA TODAY Baseball Weekly.
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MICHAEL J. RIGHT
Editor/Dir. Public Affairs
AAA The Midwest Traveler Automobile Club of Missouri
Michael J. Right
12901 N. Forty Dr, St. Louis, MO 63141(314) 523-6981 | (314) 523-6982
Michael Right is the vice president of Public Affairs for the AAA-Auto Club of Missouri. He joined the Auto Club in 1966 as a traffic analyst. Prior to joining the Auto Club, he worked as a traffic investigator for the City of St. Louis.
A native St. Louisian, Right attended Washington University. He is active in traffic engineering and traffic enforcement organizations throughout Missouri. He is chairman of the Missouri Highway Users Association, a vice president of the Missouri Transportation and Development Council and a member of the Air Quality Advisory Board of East-West Gateway Coordinating Council in St. Louis.
He has also served on the board and as president of the Traffic Engineers Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, is a member of the advisory board of the Missouri Driver and Safety Education Association, and a past president of the St. Louis Traffic Law Enforcement Association. He has served on numerous national, state and local task forces on specific transportation, air pollution and energy issues.
He has served as a member of the American Automobile Association’s Energy and Environment, Traffic Safety and Highway committees and on the Transportation Research Board’s Truck Access Committee, and was a member of Missouri’s Total Transportation Commission. He currently is a member of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety’s Research and Development Committee, the Public and Government Relations Committee of the American Automobile Association and a member of Blue Ribbon Panel of Experts formed by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.
In addition to his duties representing AAA-Auto Club of Missouri in public affairs, he is a registered lobbyist and publisher/editor of THE MIDWEST TRAVELER and THE SOUTHERN TRAVELER magazines.
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MARCI ROSENBERG
Video Producer
Marci Rosenberg
(636) 227-9616
Marci Rosenberg, a writer and producer, has been documenting the lives of Holocaust survivors since 1990. With a goal of chronicling every life, she is devoted to preserving these stories for the future generations. Though film director Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, Rosenberg was part of an effort to interview 52,000 survivors. As president, of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, Rosenberg continues to keep the memories of the Holocaust alive by interviewing local survivors. Out of her deep love for children, Rosenberg produced the St. Louis Variety Club Telethon and created a video through the Asthma and Allergy Foundation to raise money for children whose families couldn't afford their medication.
GLORIA S. ROSS
Principal Okara Communications/ Afterwords
Gloria Ross
Office/Fax: (314) 361-8572 |
Cell: (314) 550-7879Okara Communications provides small businesses and nonprofit organizations with the professional expertise needed to produce clear, creative and effective communications. Okara helps organizations move from communications as an afterthought to communications with a purpose.
An additional service of Okara Communications is AfterWords, the writing of unique life stories (obituaries) for funeral and memorial services, Web sites and newspapers. AfterWords also creates beautiful program designs.
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JANET SCOTT
Publisher
St. Louis Women On The Move and Women's Yellow Pages
Janet Scott
7850 Adkins Ave,
St. Louis, MO 63123
Cell: (314) 727-6876 |
Fax: (314) 727-2770
www.stlwomenonthemove.com
Janet (Jan) Scott has a personal mission to develop opportunities for women. Her variety of professional experience includes the president of Women’s Yellow Pages of Greater St. Louis, publisher of the St. Louis Women On The Move magazine, professor emerita from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She has been involved with numerous professional organizations including Women’s Policy Alliance, Women’s Regional Publications of America (formerly know as National Association of Women’s Yellow Pages), U. City Rotary Club and the American Symphony Orchestra League. Her leadership positions consist of Advisory Board for the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at University Missouri of St. Louis, president of the St. Louis branch of the American Association of University Women, presently President of the state board of AAUW, St. Louis Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Executive Board of Directors for the Musician’s Association of St. Louis AFM Local 2-197. Scott is also a musician whose performance career as a flutist began at age 21 in the St. Louis Symphony. A highlight of her musical career was a solo flute debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. Scott took her passion for music to her full time faculty position at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville where she was the first research scholar in the music department, designed the music business curriculum and served on the board of the Southern Illinois Arts Council. She is a founding member of the Flute Society of St. Louis, a nonprofit organization for flutists of all ages. She has a B.A. and M.M. from Washington University.
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Accounting Executive & Media Relations
SAGE Marketing
Barbara Langsam Shuman
34 N. Brentwood Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63105425 Strawbridge Dr, Chesterfield, MO 63017
Office: (314) 576-0540 | Home: (314) 576-4834 | Cell: (314) 660-4755
Barbara Langsam Shuman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and an executive with SAGE Marketing, a St. Louis-based public relations and media relations company. She is also a co-president and partner of Triumph Documentaries, a not-for-profit documentary production company.
Her professional background includes positions in print journalism, public broadcasting, university relations, advertising and public relations. She has served as associate director of alumni relations at Washington University, as marketing director at KETC-TV, Channel 9, and as associate editor at the St. Louis Jewish Light. Barbara has received "Communicator" awards for her public relations work.
Shuman co-directed, co-produced, conducted interviews and wrote the script for "The Stem Cell Divide," a documentary that explores the embryonic stem cell controversy. She has created, written the libretto and penned the lyrics for "Flora's Fair," an original musical. Vignettes from the musical were staged at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park. Shuman has written feature articles and Op-Ed pieces and book reviews for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a column for the Ladue News.
As a community volunteer, Shuman has served as board president of the St. Louis Jewish Light, vice president of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis's Women's Division and Young Professionals Division, and as a board member for several organizations including St. Louis Hillel at Washington University, the American Jewish Committee, the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis, Solomon Schechter Day School and Congregation Shaare Emeth.
DALE SINGER
Journalist
Dale Singer
BILL SMITH
Investigator
Better Business Bureau
Bill Smith
211 North Broadway, Suite 2060, St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: (314) 584-6727 | Fax: (314) 645-2666
www.bbb.org
Bill Smith, a longtime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, grew up in Central Illinois, graduating from Bradley University. His first newspaper job was at the Peoria Journal Star where he worked for five years before moving to St. Louis and the old St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
After leaving the Globe-Democrat, he moved to the Post where he worked for more than 20 years before taking early retirement. While at the Post, he wrote for virtually every section of the newspaper, serving stints as a general assignment reporter, feature writer and specialty writer in the area of philanthropy and nonprofit reporting.
After his time at the Post, he took a variety of freelance assignments and worked several months for the online St. Louis Beacon before taking a position as an investigator with the St. Louis Better Business Bureau in November 2008.
He and his wife, Cathy are both avid antiquers and Cardinals baseball fans. They live in University City.
KEVIN SMITH
Managing Partner
Big Blue Spark
Bill Smith
Kevin Smith, an events and creative professional, and current Managing Partner of Big Blue Spark, produces experiences for corporate, non-profit, and private clients. He helps his clients create engaging stories and strategizes impactful ways to deliver their messages through events, design, videos, and virtual experiences. Over the course of his career, he has worked with a wide range of clients, media professionals, and entertainers.
Additionally, he sits on the board of directors of Kids in the Middle, where he co-chairs the fund development committee, and serves on KITM event committees. Since life can’t be all about work, Kevin likes to spend time practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, hunting down the best pizza in St. Louis, and teaching his two-year-old daughter about Formula One racing — she doesn’t understand it, but sure does like watching the colorful cars go fast.
ELLEN NISENSON SOULE
Public Relations Consultant
Ellen Nisenson Soule
Buckingham Dr, #3E, St. Louis, MO 63105(314) 749-4993
Ellen Soule handles community outreach involvement with multiple nonprofit organizations. Soule’s resume includes marketing and public relations experience with companies in Los Angeles, Dallas and St. Louis. She has handled media coverage on national and local levels, organized advertising campaigns for radio, television, and print media and coordinated special events featuring national personalities. Soule’s also has experience with fundraising, client relations management and customer service.
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RICK STOFF
Rick Stoff
AISHA SULTAN
Columnist/Blogger
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Aisha Sultan
Aisha Sultan is a columnist and blogger for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has covered news in St. Louis for a decade and frequently appears as a commentator on television and radio.
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BETSY TAYLOR
Managing Editor
The Catholic Health Association of the United States
Betsy Taylor
4455 Woodson Rd, St. Louis, MO 63134
Betsy Taylor is the managing editor of the nationally circulating Health Progress, the journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. The journal is widely read by leadership and front-line care providers in Catholic health care settings. Most recently, Health Progress won 14 Catholic Press Association awards and an Excel Award from Association Media & Publications. Taylor previously worked as a newswoman for The Associated Press covering eastern Missouri and on the AP's national Lifestyles reporting team. She has worked as a reporter for several regional papers including The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Buffalo News, The Salem Evening News and The Providence Journal. She was the senior writer at Maryville University in St. Louis County. Her blog is senseandsatire.com.
KEDRA TOLSON
Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
St. Louis Community College
Kedra Tolson
Kedra Tolson was named executive director of marketing and communications in June 2016. She previously served as marketing and communications coordinator at STLCC’s Florissant Valley campus. Tolson has more than 25 years of experience in mass communications, public relations, crisis communications, internal communications and special events. Prior to joining STLCC, Tolson served as communications manager for Jazz St. Louis, a non-profit organization that promotes, presents and preserves jazz in St. Louis through performances, education and outreach activities. She also served as media relations manager for the University of Missouri-St. Louis and communications and marketing director for Focus St. Louis. Tolson returned to STLCC in 2010 after having served as assistant coordinator for community relations from 1997 to 2001. She is an active volunteer, serving on the boards of St. Louis ArtWorks, Webster Arts, and the St. Louis Press Club. Tolson earned her bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in management and leadership in the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University.
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SARAH THOMPSON
Sarah Thompson, LLC
PR | Communications | Marketing | Media Production
Sarah Thompson
sarahthompsonproductions.com
Sarah Thompson is a PR, marketing and communications specialist, working for more than 16 years in the St. Louis market with a client portfolio of local nonprofit organizations and businesses in the areas of arts, culture, lifestyle, education, and community services. She creates, manages and executes her clients’ public relations, marketing, communications, social media and media content production needs. With some longstanding clients, Sarah is contracted as the client’s director of communications and director of marketing and public relations. For a list of present and past clients, please visit https:// www.sarahthompsonproductions.com.
Prior to starting Sarah Thompson, LLC in 2009, Sarah was an account supervisor at the PR and brand reputation management firm Twist, LLC, where she worked closely with a wide range of clients, managing their accounts and executing each client’s public relations, integrated marketing initiatives, advertising, and select events. Sarah maintains positive, ongoing working relationships with local media and consistently secures prominent and ongoing coverage with print, TV, online and radio outlets in the St. Louis market. Sarah has also received national coverage for her clients with the Associated Press, NPR, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, Food Arts, Today MSNBC, ARTnews, Ebony, Dance Magazine and The New York Times.
In addition to running her PR, marketing, and production business, Sarah Thompson is a five-time Emmy® Award nominee and three-time Emmy® Award-winning producer, receiving an Emmy Award for two arts/entertainment stories at HEC-TV as well as a commercial campaign, “Dance - The Most Beautiful Sport in the WorldTM” for her client Dance St. Louis. Sarah is the host and producer of STL TV’s 30-minute program “City Corner,” which also airs on ABC30. For the past 12 years, she has served as the weekly on-air events contributor on KMOV’s “News 4 Great Day" and weekly host of STL TV’s “STL Live.” In 2020, she received STL TV’s Jewel Award for “Best Host.” Other media work includes segment producer at HEC-TV, on- air host at Charter Communications and community contributor for Nine Network’s “Stay Tuned.” Sarah also producesindependent TV/video projects for her clients, including institutional videos, web and social media videos and PSAs. She is also contracted by production companies for both on-air work and writing/producing.
Sarah served on the board of commissioners for the Central West End South Special Business District from 2009-2013.
From 2007-2011 she served on the board of directors at Independence Center – a nonprofit organization that supports
adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses. She created, produced and chaired Summer Fusion—Independence
Center’s first major Young Friends’ fundraising event—for three consecutive years. She also served on the marketing
committee for Circus Flora during the 2015 season.
A native of St. Louis, Sarah returned to her hometown after living in England, where she worked at the BBC and completed
a master’s degree in History, Film, and Television at The University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). She holds an
undergraduate degree with highest honors from Stanford University. She is a graduate of Mary Institute and St. Louis
Country Day School (MICDS).
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DICK WEISS
WeissWrite LLC
Dick Weiss
72 Lake Forest, St. Louis, MO 63117Phone: (314) 645-3399 | Fax: (314) 645-3377
Dick Weiss is an award-winning writer and editor with more than three decades of experience at American newspapers. While keeping his day job at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Weiss started WeissWrite LLC in 2003 as a writing, editing and coaching service for anyone with a story to tell. WeissWrite recently has been burgeoning with requests for writing workshops, ghostwriting, and editing consultations. In December, 2005, Weiss left the Post-Dispatch to devote all his energies to WeissWrite. As a metro editor and writing coach at the Post-Dispatch, oversaw the development of enterprise stories, with a particular emphasis on narrative writing. He also held training seminars for a newsroom staff of 300 reporters and editors, and coached reporters one-on-one. Several stories Weiss wrote and edited were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes. Weiss is a frequent speaker at the American Press Institute and was site director for the National Writers’ Workshop in St. Louis from 2001-2004. He recently completed a year-long tour as a speaker for the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism where he showed business writers how to weave their facts and figures into compelling tales. More information on WeissWrite can be found at weisswrite.com.
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GLYNELLE WELLS
Account Executive
KMOX Radio “Home of the Cardinals”
Glynelle Wells
Cell: (314) 324-8039 |
Office: (314) 444-1845
Glynelle Wells was the Director of Advertising for the St. Louis Business Journal since 1999, helping to make it the most profitable Business Journal out of 43 markets for the last five years. Previously, she had been the sales manager for Classic 99 KFUO FM, where she quadrupled advertising revenue in nine years, and then spent a year at CBS Radio KMOX 1120 selling advertising for talk/sports programming before going on to the Business Journal. A cum laude B.S. graduate from Lindenwood University, Wells also has served as president of the St. Louis Ad Club, on the board of the downtown YMCA, and on the communications committee of the March of Dimes.
PATRICIA WENTE
Executive Director
International Photography Hall of Fame
Pat Wente
3415 Olive St, St. Louis, MO 63103(314) 479-2698
EXPERIENCE
Patricia A. Wente is the Executive director for the International Photography Hall of Fame. Before that she was Senior Vice President of Development for Group 720 and Creative Producers Group and Cos Portfolio: UPBrand, CPG and Vidzu to cultivate new strategic business. She has more than 30 years of experience in leading and driving both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. As President & CEO of The Wente Group Inc. she brought strategic engagement efforts to life for client companies. Known for identifying the need and effectively linking community talent with company needs.
Prior to the Wente Group, she managed radio stations in small, medium and large markets, and worked at the local, regional and national level. Wente lead a non-profit organization from a negative budget to a $7 million first-class operation. She has directed, supervised or directly participated in generating more than $100 million in development revenue for non-profit institutions. Membership revenue increased 685 percent, corporate
underwriting increased 846 percent to break into the seven figures, and the enrollment of those utilizing the service more than doubled to 196,000. Staffing more than tripled to accommodate the growth of what is now one of the top ten most listened-to public radio news organizations in the country.
Wente was the manager of Station Grant Programs at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington D.C. for both public radio and television stations. She managed stations in Wichita, Kansas; Norman, Oklahoma and St. Louis, Missouri.
At The Wente Group Inc., Wente is a dynamic goal-oriented leader with a demonstrated ability to motivate and inspire senior teams to develop and implement strategy and to achieve maximum results. She employs superlative relationship-building skills to strategize, engage and cultivate the development of a large base of affluent donors within a community. And she maintains cultural and political sensitivity, enabling commitment from diverse population segments. The Wente Group’s client base includes companies such as Centene Corporation, The Radio Arts Foundation, Maryville University, Saint Louis University, WNYC Public Radio, Craft Alliance, KUVO and the Girl Scouts of Eastern Misouri.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
Wente served on the Board of Directors of National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcast Managers Association, and was also a member of the Public Radio Leadership Forum. She is the past President of Public Radio in Mid America, and represented public radio in the Midwest at the national level on the NPR Board of Directors.
She is a Board member of the St. Louis Press Club and is currently the Vice President of Membership. She serves on the YWCA Circle of Women Committee as well as the Face the Nation Committee of the Press Club. She has served on committees for the 2010-11 Jazz St. Louis Gala, 2010-12 Wellness Community Gala, and 2010-12 Shakespeare Festival Gala. Wente has been a committee member for the St. Louis Forum, United Way of Greater St. Louis and American Cancer Research.
She acted as the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America’s Mid-America spokesperson in 2008. She has been involved in the Regional Commerce and Growth Association- St. Louis for over 20 years.
Wente has received two national awards including the Public Broadcast Management Association’s Award of Excellence and Public Radio Regional Organization’s “Potholder” Award. The St. Louis Business Journal named Wente one of 2007’s “Most Influential” and one of 2004”s Most Influential Business Women.” She received a YWCA Special Leader Award in 2003.
She earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Communication from the University of Illinois-Springfield.
KARYN WILLIAMS
Editor In Chief
Town & Style
Karyn Williams
121 Hunter Ave, Suite 201, Ladue, MO 63124Phone: (314) 657-2103 | Fax: (314) 657-2150
www.townandstyle.com