Speakers
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BRANDI BOATNER
Brandi Boatner is an award-winning digital communication, public relations, social media professional and prolific public speaker based in New York City. Currently, she is a member of IBM’s newly formed corporate affairs function supporting global influencer and advocacy efforts across social platforms (includes enablement and activation) both internally and externally for social media driving market education around brand and reputation. She speaks all around the US and the world on a variety of industry and marketplace topics.
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Boatner is very active in the public relations industry where she holds several leadership positions within the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) on both the local and national level.
She is a two-time Hall of Famer having been inducted into the Loyola University New Orleans School of Mass Communications Hall of Fame known as the Den of Distinction, the youngest member ever inducted. She was also honored and inducted into the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) Hall of Fame.
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Dennis Dumpson
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Karen Simmons, M.Ed.
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Sarah TeDesco
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Greg Wilson, MA
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