Name: Dr. Joseph V. Trahan, III, APR, Fellow PRSA Chapter: Georgia Current position: CEO/PResident/International Media Relations Trainer Trahan & Associates How long in current position:16 years First PR job:Public Relations Intern Indiana Pacers Where you attended college: BA-Tulane Univ.; MA-Ball State Univ.;  PD.-Univ. of Southern MIss. If you weren’t doing PR, you’d be……US Park Service […]

Name: McGavock Henderson Edwards, APR Chapter: North Carolina Current position: Director of Strategic Communications How long in current position: 1.5 years First PR job: Account Executive with Margee Herring & Company, Wilmington NC and handling promotions for the New Hanover County Fair. Where you attended college: University of North Carolina at Wilmington If you weren’t doing PR, […]

Name: Louise Oliver Chapter: Alabama Current position: President of Peritus PR, a boutique public relations and public affairs agency headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama How long in current position: Two and a half years First PR job: Account Coordinator with Peritus PR. Following graduate school, I was asked to join Peritus PR to help grow their […]

Name: Neil Hirsch, APR Chapter: Georgia Current position: Director, Corporate External Communications, The Americas, InterContinental Hotels Group How long in current position: One year First PR job: Account Executive at Cookerly Public Relations in Atlanta Where you attended college: Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia If you weren’t doing […]