Tamara Babiuk has over 15 years of experience in communications in development. She is the currently the director of Development Solutions Group (DSG) at Chemonics International, Inc. a consulting company. DSG coordinates project support services in communications, impact assessment, and technical innovation. As the former director of project communications at Chemonics, she instituted training and guidance for field projects implementing communications campaigns.
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Communications for International Development

Kathy Baird is a senior vice president with the integrated marketing communications group in the Washington, DC office. At Fleishman-Hillard, she works on a variety of clients including corporate, nonprofit and academic accounts. Her work spans the true sense of integrated communications with a solid foundation in digital strategy, brand development and public relations.
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This instructor has taught:
Digital Communications Strategy
Advanced Digital Strategy

Allison is the president of her own strategic communication firm in the Washington, DC area. She works with clients to create strategic approaches, identifying the best tactics to reach specific audiences. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, teaching in the Master’s program for Public Relations and Corporate Communications. Prior to running her own business, Allison spent over 7 years at the Department of Defense. She was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Internal Communications and Public Liaison. In this position, she was responsible for the Department's communication to the men and women of the military, worldwide, and for community relations programs that link citizens to members of the Armed Forces at home and abroad.
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This instructor has taught:
Public Relations & Corporate Communications Capstone
Employee Engagement And Internal Communications

Jessica Beauchemin has worked on a variety of projects spanning the Government, nonprofit, and high-technology sectors, shaping the strategy, planning, and execution of national and international communications programs. She currently serves as an account supervisor in Ketchum’s Social Marketing Practice, primarily working with Government clients including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Ms. Beauchemin is well versed in event planning, media relations, material development, and partnership relations for diverse audiences including parents, youth, seniors, and the disabled. Her work has garnered numerous industry accolades, including Silver Anvil awards from the Public Relations Society of America.
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This instructor has taught:
PR Case Studies

Vice President, Social Marketing Practice, Ketchum Frances Bernhards serves as a vice president in Ketchum Washington, D.C.’s Social Marketing Practice. In addition to social marketing, she has experience in public affairs, issues management, crisis management, and litigation communications. Throughout her nearly 30-year career at Ketchum, Ms. Bernhards has been central in developing and testing campaign messaging and materials for a variety of social marketing, health education and issues management campaigns as well as in training client and third-party spokespersons to deliver key messages in media interviews and presentations.
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This instructor has taught:
PR Case Studies

Rohit is a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy, a group focused on developing social media and word of mouth marketing strategy and campaigns for clients including Intel, Unilever, Lenovo, Ford, CDC, Lance Armstrong Foundation and many others. He is author of the award winning new marketing book Personality Not Included, an entertaining and useful guide to using your personality in marketing, which is available in more than 50 countries around the world in 6 languages.
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This instructor has taught:
Global Communications In Social Media

Jeff Bieber is Vice President for National Programming at WETA. Jeff Bieber is a veteran executive producer of public television documentaries, specials, news and cultural programs at WETA, the public broadcasting station for the Greater Washington area. He is responsible for creating and managing major primetime series for PBS, including America at a Crossroads, a series of 20 documentaries about the Iraq War, Terrorism and America’s response to 9/11 and winner of 2008 EMMY and Columbia-DuPont awards; The Mysterious Human Heart, winner of a 2008 EMMY award; The Jewish Americans, a six-hour series that aired in January 2007; Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal, winner of a 2008 Peabody Award; and numerous other documentaries, specials and weekly series. Bieber’s responsibilities include forging media partnerships, fundraising and managing public media campaigns. Bieber has also produced numerous documentaries, news specials, multi-camera music specials at the U.S. Capitol and The Kennedy Center and daily coverage of the WACO, Whitewater, Clarence Thomas Hearings as well as continuous news coverage of the attacks and aftermath of 9/11. (Photo credit: Courtesy WETA/Cable Risdon Photography)
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This instructor has taught:
Creating Public Media Campaigns

Joy Bates Boyle founded Life’s Work, LLC, to create positive social change by strengthening the business and communications strategies of charitable organizations. Current clients include United Way of America, and Water For All, a South African nonprofit organization. She also recently edited a book on strategic planning. Ms. Boyle started her career in Washington on Capitol Hill and honed her communications and consulting skills as a senior vice president at Fleishman-Hillard. She strengthened her expertise in philanthropy and charitable organizations while working as a social investment manager at the Case Foundation.
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This instructor has taught:
Cause Consulting
Cause Consulting II: Implementing the Communications Plan

Rachel is the Executive Producer of the 360° Digital Influence team, Ogilvy’s award-winning digital word of mouth marketing practice in Washington, DC. Rachel has been with Ogilvy for nearly 3 years, and has executed social media strategy as well as Web 2.0 platforms for a wide range of clients such as LIVESTRONG, Kaplan University, Siemens, Novartis, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and federal government agencies including HHS, NIH and the CDC.
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This instructor has taught:
Intersection: Online/Offline PR

Barbara Coons is a senior vice president of StrategyOne and directs the Media and Competitive Intelligence group based in Washington, DC. She has extensive experience in the field of media analysis, competitive intelligence and litigation support research.
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This instructor has taught:
Communications Research

Shayna Englin founded Englin Consulting, LLC in November 2006 to provide results-driven communications strategy to campaigns, non-profits and associations. By tapping a vast network of top-in-their field independent consultants and partner firms, Englin Consulting, LLC delivers exactly the right expertise on each client engagement, ensuring specific, customized, and on-budget results for every client.
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This instructor has taught:
Strategic Communications Planning

Garrett M. Graff is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on technology and politics. As an editor at Washingtonian magazine, he covers media and politics and serves as internet director. His first book, “The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House,” laid out the impact of technology on the 2008 presidential race. Previously, Graff was the first blogger accredited to cover a White House press briefing, served on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, and was the Vermont governor’s first webmaster.
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This instructor has taught:
Social Media

Kimberly H. Greer is founder and managing principal of FinePoint Communications LLC, a message and brand development boutique delivering a full range of corporate communications services that help companies develop and maintain a unique presence. For nearly two decades, she has led and developed highly respected, results-driven communications teams and programs for Fortune 500 corporations, global professional services firms and a large metropolitan provider of energy services. Ms. Greer has designed numerous award-winning programs and corporate initiatives recognized for their excellence and creativity by the International Association of Business Communicators, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Ad Directors Club of Washington. She offers strong expertise in change management, workforce reduction and crisis communications and has earned media coverage for clients in numerous special interest publications such as Scientific American and in the Washington Post. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, holds a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University, and is a former marketing columnist and business news reporter for Crain Communications and Gannett Co. Ms. Greer lives in northern Virginia with her husband and two sons, and is an active volunteer with the Loudoun County Public Schools’ Board of Education.
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This instructor has taught:
Corporate Communications

John Gundlach is an SVP and Group Creative Director at GMMB, a cause-related communications agency in Washington, DC. John has over 16 years of experience in advertising and brand strategy for products and issues from major national brands to non-profits large and small. As a critical part of his work, John presents concepts and strategy on a weekly basis, from one-on-one meetings to audiences of over 200 people. He's presented to internal communications staff, government, the military, corporations, non-profits and global health organizations. Geographically, he's presented work from coast to coast across the country, as well as oversees, including Geneva and Abu Dhabi. John has been teaching at Georgetown since 2008.
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This instructor has taught:
Presentation Skills

Cheryl Haas is a vice president in the digital department of Fleishman-Hillard’s Washington, DC office. In this role, Ms. Haas leads the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search strategies for a variety of clients, including those from health care, federal government, consumer products, consulting services and non-profit industries to name a few. Ms. Haas is a search industry veteran with over 8 years experience in the search field. She has worked on major search engines and start-ups alike.
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This instructor has taught:
SEO/Search Engine Strategy

Bruce Harrison is a consultant on corporate public relations issues, with an emphasis on environment, social responsibility and sustainability. His corporate experience was as Vice President and chief public relations officer of Freeport Minerals Company (now Freeport McMoran), headquartered in New York, where he had responsibility for public relations in mining projects in Europe, Latin America and Asia, including launch of a major copper development program in Indonesia. He subsequently founded E. Bruce Harrison Company and EnviroComm International, a consultancy operating in the U.S. and Europe, specializing in environmental, health and safety communication, which he now serves as chairman and strategic counsel.
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This instructor has taught:
Crisis Communications

Linda Y. Kelleher is currently an instructor in Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies. Prior to that she was at the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI), a professional association representing corporate financial communicators. She held positions of increasing responsibility including senior vice president of professional development, interim CEO and most recently, executive vice president, responsible for external affairs, industry relations and quantifying professional best practices.
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This instructor has taught:
Conversations About Ethics: Philosophical, Professional, and Personal

Denise Keyes is the associate dean of the Master of Professional Studies in Public Relations and Corporate Communication at Georgetown University. She launched the program in 2007 and was responsible for the design of its innovative applied curriculum which focuses on educating responsible communicators. One of hallmarks of the program is the Center for Social Impact Communications (CSIC) which reflects Ms. Keyes' own passion and experience using the power of communications to create positive change.
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This instructor has taught:
Public Relations & Corporate Communications Capstone

Steven Kostant is a senior vice president of creative strategy at Fleishman-Hillard Washington, D.C. where he specializes in integrating the creative approach with business and organizational objectives. Prior to joining Fleishman-Hillard, Mr. Kostant was Executive Creative Strategist for Planit Agency, a national advertising and integrated marketing company. He has served as Vice President of Content and Programming for StarBand Communications, the world¹s first satellite-delivered broadband company, and he was Vice President, Creative Strategy at iXL, an interactive advertising agency providing creative direction and online brand strategy to Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
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This instructor has taught:
Brand and Creative Strategy: Embracing the Blur

Mike Krempasky joined Edelman in August 2005 as Vice President, focusing on internet strategy and communications, marketing, and advocacy for Edelman clients. He was responsible for the development and launch of the first blog for the largest corporation in the United States.
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This instructor has taught:
Social Media

Joseph LaMountain is President of SparkLight Comunications which develops and implements advocacy, media relations, communication and marketing campaigns for a range of clients. Since launching the firm in 2006, LaMountain has worked with most of the nation’s leading patient advocacy organizations to generate public support for their respective causes. Prior to founding SparkLight, LaMountain served as Vice President of the Vision Council of America. At VCA he created the “Check Yearly” awareness campaign that delivered more than 200 million messages to consumers. He also generated approximately $25 million in earned media coverage, secured 190 congressional cosponsors of vision care legislation, and helped enact ten state laws to improve vision care.
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This instructor has taught:
Grassroots Communications

Creating high-impact, award-winning communications campaigns for corporate and nonprofit clients is Chris Lisi’s professional signature. For more than a decade, she has helped shape the public relations, marketing, and political communications agendas of world-class organizations. Depth of experience in public policy and healthcare enables her quickly to identify opportunities to reach and influence her clients’ critical audiences and stakeholders. Bridging the private and public sectors, Lisi effectively applies her associations and finely tuned insights as a Washington insider to deliver consistent, measurable successes.
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This instructor has taught:
Intersection: Online/Offline PR

Actor and author Ben Stein put it this way: "... a poet. I don't see anyone out there under the age of 50 writing better short pieces than he is right now." Michael Long is a writer of growing acclaim. He is an accomplished author, essayist, editorialist and speechwriter with experience in government, business, and the non-profit world. In 2008 he began teaching writing in the graduate school at Georgetown University. He has led reading programs for children of migrant farm workers, and has delivered guest lectures on humor and speechwriting at George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management.
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This instructor has taught:
Public Relations Writing
Persuasive Writing
Speech Writing

Judith Muhlberg understands first-hand how to drive results within Fortune 500 global companies and is experienced in dealing with many business issues, ranging from mergers and acquisitions to leadership communications, corporate reputation, employee engagement and crisis, change and culture management. As a consultant for Gagen MacDonald, Judith has consulted with United Airlines (communications and leadership plan for exit from bankruptcy), BASF (strategic communications for its largest acquisition), Collective Brands, Inc. (merger integration for its acquisition of Stride Rite), Estee Lauder (internal communications strategy), and Mars-Wrigley (integration process communications).
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This instructor has taught:
Crisis Communications

Robert Michael Murray is Vice President, Social Media for National Geographic in Washington, DC. In this position he is responsible for developing strategies that harness all existing and emerging social media platforms to effectively engage with National Geographic audiences and to transmit National Geographic-curated stories and the mission of the society across all digital mediums. For more than fifteen years Murray has been a senior digital adviser focused on strategic communications, emerging technologies, and live event production. His work has garnered national and international media coverage; outlets include the BBC, CNN, C-SPAN, The Washington Post, New York Times and others. Blending strategy, creative storytelling and emerging technologies Murray has worked with businesses, nonprofits, political campaigns and higher education institutions to successfully meet their institutional objectives, create brand loyalty, and build meaningful relationships with global audiences.
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This instructor has taught:
Digital Content Creation and Management: Digital Storytelling

An internationally renowned marketing thought leader, teacher, and practitioner, Don Neal brings Madison Avenue to Main Street. He has spent a career dedicated to the art and science of persuasion. From strategic communications, branding, advertising, and live branded media, he delivers aggressive and progressive marketing solutions to global brands such Mercedes Benz, Marriott, and Microsoft. In his work, Neal is relentless in achieving message relevance, media precision, and accountability for results.
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This instructor has taught:
Integrated Marketing Communications
Live Branded Media

With nearly two decades of national leadership in nonprofit and corporate public relations, David Park is Senior Vice President, Communications & Marketing, for America’s Promise Alliance, the nation’s largest cross sector partnership dedicated to improving the lives of young people. In this capacity, David oversees internal and external communications, branding and messaging, media relations, web initiatives, and event production.
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This instructor has taught:
Media Relations

Marcia Silverman is chief executive officer of Ogilvy PR, responsible for all worldwide operations. A 28-year veteran of Ogilvy PR, Marcia was the company’s first president of the Americas. As the former head of Ogilvy PR’s largest office in Washington, DC, she has counseled and provided public relations expertise to numerous corporations, trade associations and government agencies. PRWeek, a leading industry trade publication, recognized Marcia’s contribution to the industry by profiling her as one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in PR” and as one of the “100 Most Influential PR Professionals” in the 20th century. She was recently named PRWeek’s “2009 PR Professional of the Year” and one of Washington Business Journal’s “Women Who Mean Business.”
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This instructor has taught:
Leadership in Communications

Diane is a seasoned and experienced leader with over twenty years of experience in the strategic communications & public affairs arena. She focuses on helping clients achieve their goals through a range of public affairs services that inform policy decisions and the regulatory process, build strong market reputations, and address complex business challenges. Tomb & Associates, LLC was founded by Diane Tomb, who was instilled with an entrepreneurial spirit from an early age.
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This instructor has taught:
Public Affairs & Government Relations

Frank Walter has more than 20 years of communications and media relations experience, including work in corporate, agency, public affairs, and non-profit sectors. He currently is an independent communications consultant working with renewable energy, environmental, and nonprofit clients.
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This instructor has taught:
Media Relations
Media Relations & Messaging