• National Fellow of PRSA
  • Cleveland PRSA Lighthouse Award for professional achievement and community service
  • Cleveland PRSA President’s Award 
  • Executive Committee Member, PRSA Counselors Academy
  • Officer, PRSA-Cleveland and PRSA-Western Reserve Chapters
  • Board Member, Villa Angela-Saint Joseph High School
  • Corporate Counsel, Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Advisory Council, Hospice of the Western Reserve
  • Trustee, Achievement Centers for Children
  • Member, Leadership Cleveland’s Class of 2002 
  • Board Member, Boys Hope Girls Hope
  • Trustee and Speaker, Federation for Community Planning
  • Consultant to WomenSafe, a Geauga County Women’s Shelter
  • Marketing Committee Member, Commission on Economic Inclusion, Greater Cleveland Partnership

Public Relations Society of America Silver Anvils (PRSA’s highest recognition of programs)

  • Marketing public relations program (Eastman Kodak Document Imaging)
  • Marketing public relations campaign (ALLTEL)
  • Internal communications program (Sky Financial Group)
  • Crisis communications program (Ohio Bancorp)
  • Management of major events surrounding a corporate headquarters’ opening (BP, then Standard Oil)
  • Media relations program for a trade association (Steel Service Center Institute)
  • Marketing consumer services program (CMJ Music Fest – Cleveland Visitors Bureau and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

Public Relations Society of America Bronze Anvils (PRSA’s highest recognition of tactics)

  • Annual report for not-for-profit organization (Ohio Steel Industry Advisory Council)
  • Newsletters (HomeTown Health Network)
  • Brochures (Johnsonite)

 Regional and Local Awards

  • PRSA CLE Judge’s Choice – Marketing business-to-business (Kelly Tires)
  • PRSA CLE Gold – Guerilla marketing/grass roots (The Cleveland Film Festival)
  • PRSA ECD – Consumer marketing (Black Flag)
  • PRSA ECD – Media relations program for a trade association (Steel Service Center Institute)
  • PRSA ECD – National media relations program for law firm (Arter & Hadden)
  • PRSA ECD – Public affairs program (Ohio Steel Industry Advisory Council)
  • PRSA ECD – Marketing communications program for business-to-business (HomeTown Health Network)
  • PRSA ECD – Public affairs program (The Western Reserve Transit Authority)
  • PRSA ECD – Change communications program (Sky Financial Group)
  • PRSA ECD – Marketing/Business-to-Business (Bendix)
  • AHA Touchstone Award for Excellence for the practice of health care marketing and public relations (St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center)
  • Metalworking News/SSCI Silver Triangle Awards for two advertising campaigns

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt