President

Joan Cear
Managing Director
G.S. Schwartz & Co.

Joan Cear is managing director and head of the consumer practice at G.S. Schwartz & Co. Inc., leading mid-sized, New York City public relations agency. Joan was previously president and owner of The Wachsman Cear Group, another New York-based PR agency that merged with G.S. Schwartz & Co. in 2001.

At G.S. Schwartz & Co., Joan is responsible for strategic planning and public relations program development and implementation for a wide range of clients including Anheuser-Busch, UTStarcom, Cold-Eeze, Pressman Toy, eToys Direct, Magners Irish Cider, Walkerswood Caribbean Foods and others. Joan also has an integral role in the agency’s new business development.

Joan’s previous agency, The Wachsman Cear Group, was founded in 1957 as David S. Wachsman Associates Inc. Joan acquired the firm from the founder in 1998. Prior to joining Wachsman Associates in 1990, Joan was a media relations specialist for Long Island Lighting Company. She is also a former print and broadcast journalist.

Joan has served on the Student Affairs Committee of New York Women in Communications for more than five years. During this time, NYWICI Student Affairs developed a separate student membership category and specific programs geared toward students; launched a student member email newsletter, NYWICINext; grown its NYWICI Foundation Scholarships to $100,000 in awards to 16 students; and much more.

In addition to her service to NYWICI, Joan is a member of the boards of directors of Educational Housing Services, Inc., Peninsula Counseling Center and New York SCORES. She also belongs to the Publicity Club of New York. Joan has a B.A. in communications from the State University of New York at Oswego.

Treasurer

Nancy Megan
Promotion Management

Nancy comes from the worlds of advertising and magazine publishing, including a number of advertising agencies and 27 years at Time Inc. For TIME and Sports Illustrated she served in various executive promotion and public affairs roles, in which she directed advertising promotion, special events, the famous TIME international news tours for advertisers, industry conferences and corporate involvement in the arts. She was President, and then served professionally for two years as Executive Director, for Advertising Women of New York (AWNY) before going on her own.

A graduate of Wellesley College with a BA in Music, she has sat on the board of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the American Symphony Orchestra, and The Dwelling Place, a women’s shelter in New York. Along with industry work, Nancy does occasional free-lance promotion projects under banner, Promotion Management. For NYWICI, of which she’s been a member since 1986, she has periodically been on the board as VP Finance since 1992, currently manages the content for the website and coordinates development for the Matrix Awards luncheons. She directed the establishment of the NYWICI Foundation in 2000, and also serves as its VP Finance.

 
Cameron Blanchard 
SVP Communications, Bravo & Oxygen
NBC Universal

Linda Buckley
Vice President, Media Relations
Tiffany & Co.

Linda Buckley is vice president of media relations for Tiffany & Co. In this capacity, she is responsible for all consumer media relations, including product placements, and press activities across all product categories. She also serves as the company’s spokesperson to the consumer and jewelry industry press.

Ms. Buckley joined Tiffany & Co. in 1995. She was appointed director of publicity in 1997 and promoted to vice president in 2003. Over her 15-year career in the public relations field, she also held management positions at the Diamond Information Center, the communications agency for DeBeers, and at marketing and public relations firms such as Fleishman-Hillard, where she executed strategic communications programs for fashion, publishing and lifestyle clients.

Ms. Buckley graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. An active participant in business affairs, Ms. Buckley is a member of the board of directors of the Jewelry Information Center and New York Women in Communications.

Jeanne-Marie Byington 
President
JM Byington & Assoc., Inc.

Jeanne-Marie Byington—Jeanne—is an award-winning public relations and marketing consultant with experience in both major and moderate sized agencies. Her boutique PR agency, celebrating its 13th year, has conducted successful campaigns for international corporations, family-owned businesses, associations and startups.

Service is one of Jeanne’s lifelong passions and is the topic of her blog, “The Importance of Earnest Service,” blog.jmbyington.com. She covers lessons learned and observed from the superlative to the neglectful and welcomes others’ experiences. She interprets the service word well beyond its customer affiliation to cover people and organizations that serve others, the service of tradition and much more.
Jeanne was on the New York Women in Communications board as co-chair membership for four years, on the scholarship committee for three, the Matrix Awards Luncheon committee and on this year’s nominations committee.

A member of Baruch College’s Executives on Campus mentoring initiative for three years, she will chair the school’s graduate corporate communications mentoring program in the fall.

A longtime past member of the national and New York boards of the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) and former trustee of the IFDA Educational Foundation, she received IFDA’s Honorary Recognition Award and the Circle of Excellence Award in the public relations/advertising category.

Cate Carley
VP, Sales
iVillage

Cate Carley is currently VP of Sales for iVillage.  Previously, Cate was Regional Sales Director, New York for AOL Advertising.

 As Regional Sales Director for AOL Advertising in New York, Cate oversaw the Health and Women’s Lifestyle vertical sales team.  As an executive and a mother, she knows first hand how many roles women play in their daily lives and she is able to extend that knowledge to create and sell innovative campaigns that provide businesses solutions and help brands reach their audience.

Since Cate joined AOL Advertising and headed the women’s lifestyle sales arm of AOL Living – revenue has increased 60% year-over-year and has launched programs with major advertisers including Kellogg’s, Tylenol, GMC, Target and more. She is able to develop innovative campaigns and sell against them so that the advertisers reach their target consumers in an active and engaged method. Cate knows that as the Web becomes more fragmented, digital advertising has to speak clearly to audiences who expect more sophistication and transparency from the media they area consuming. Cate is able to put herself in the consumers’ shoes and really understand what is going to be effective.

Prior to her role at AOL Advertising, Cate was the National Sales Director for Real Simple where she oversaw digital media. Under her leadership, Real Simple launched the TLC television show Real Life. She was responsible for the digital packages for the TV show, and sold-out all available premium inventory and double their sales revenue year-over-year.

Previously, she was the Health/Pharma Sales Director at AOL Media Networks, where she was responsible for setting Health/Pharma sale strategies for the AOL sales team. She also served as the Sales Director, Targeted Media, at Time Inc., where she expanded the healthcare business by quickly guiding clients and internal resources to focus on the best use of the “Waiting Room” program in the Pharma sector.
Prior to joining Time Warner, Carley enjoyed great success on the agency account side delivering strategic, relevant and ownable campaigns to clients at Thomas Ferguson Associates – a division of CommonHealth, the world's leading healthcare communications resource and a WPP Group company. She managed the account and creative teams for several high-profile Pharma accounts such as Claritin/Clarinex (Schering-Plough) and Sporanox & Nizoral (Johnson & Johnson).

Before CommonHealth, Carley worked at GTFH (now Grey Healthcare) on the Bristol-Myers Squibb account on both the professional advertising and educational side of marketing and educational efforts. Her team managed a peer-to-peer physician education program – a new product – that resulted in a 2-to-1 adoption over competitive products.

Cate is and always has been a leader. She served as Councilwoman for her hometown, where she lives with her husband and two children. Her role at AOL Advertising allowed her to put her creativity, humor and intellect to use everyday.  As she juggles a 24 hour work day both in and out of the home, she is always smiling and always willing to lend a hand to a friend and coworker in need.

Catherine L. Carlozzi
Business Writer

Catherine L. Carlozzi is a communications professional with nearly 30 years of ex­perience in corporate, agency, and consulting environments.  Her specialty is business-to-business communications and speechwriting.  Her recent clients have included American Express Publishing, The Ayers Group, Deloitte, Donna Karan International, FORTUNE magazine, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Microsoft, MONEY magazine, and Trilogy Software. 

Before establishing her writing/communications consulting business in 1991, Carlozzi was vice president and manager of special projects for Brown Boxenbaum, a full-service PR agency in New York City.  She also served as associate national director of publications at Laventhol & Horwath, the former national CPA and consulting firm based in Philadelphia. 

Carlozzi was a regular contributor to The Journal of Accountancy from 1997-99.  In addition to writing under her own byline, she has ghostwritten articles that have appeared in Strategy & Leadership, Across the Board, Public Relations Tactics, Public Relations Quarterly, Internal Communications Focus, and Broker World.

An active member of NYWICI since 1992, she served on the organization’s board for six years, as vice president of membership and then programs, before moving to the foundation board in 2005.  She cochaired the Matrix Program Committee from 1998-99 and went on to serve on the Matrix Committee as an adviser and as board liaison.  Carlozzi received the Liz Hoover Award for outstanding service in 1999. 

She was honored by Bloomfield College in 2006 for her mentoring work with communications student, by the Montclair Art Museum in 2000 with its Directors Award, and by the YWCA of Montclair-North Essex in 1995 as one of "50 Women You Should Know."

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a master's degree in English cum laude, Carlozzi taught in the university's undergraduate program.  She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Denison University summa cum laude.

Dorothy Crenshaw
President
Crenshaw Communications

Dorothy Crenshaw has provided the creative force and initiative behind a broad range of high-profile and award-winning marketing public relations programs. She became President of Stanton Crenshaw in 1996 after a 15-year career in marketing public relations. She and partner Alex Stanton have built Stanton Crenshaw into one of the premier mid-sized public relations firms in the country. Stanton Crenshaw has grown to $6 million dollars in fee revenues in five years.

Dorothy spent many years working on behalf of packaged goods clients and developing programs on behalf of food and beverage, sports, and consumer health product marketers. She was previously Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Worldwide Consumer Marketing with GCI Group, the public relations unit of Grey Advertising. Prior to Grey, she was with Edelman Public Relations Worldwide as Senior Vice President. She started her career at Dorf & Stanton Communications, where she rose from Account Executive to Executive Vice President and partner in seven years.

Programs she has developed and managed include those for American Express, Procter & Gamble, M&M/Mars, Sharp Electronics, Starbucks, Pepsi-Cola, and Snapple Beverage Co. At Stanton Crenshaw, Dorothy has developed brand extension strategies and programs for clients in product and brand marketing, including Sharp, Starbucks, CNBC, The Weather Channel and weather.com, About.com/The New York Times Digital Group, and Hachette Filipacchi.

Dorothy speaks frequently on brand-building, marketing to women, and workplace topics. She has been a featured speaker at the International Research Institute’s Online-Offline Branding Forum; the PRSA’s Counselors Academy, Ragan Public Relations conferences, The Fulcrum Speakers Series, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business. She was named one of the public relations industry’s 100 Most Powerful Women by PR Week. In 1998, Dorothy and her agency were the recipients of the “Best of the Best” Big Apple Award given by the New York Public Relations Society of America. In 1999, Stanton Crenshaw was named “Best New Agency” by Inside PR magazine. In early 2000, it was named “Mid-Size PR Agency of the Year” by PR Week.

Read an interview with Ms. Crenshaw that appeared in our January 2008 e-newsletter NYWICINow.

Judith Czelusniak

Susan Goodall
Editorial Development Director
Glamour Magazine
Condé Nast

Dana Beth Hagendorf
Vice President of Marketing
Audemars Piguet (North America) Inc.

Dana Hagendorf is Vice President of Marketing for Audemars Piguet North America, one of the world’s oldest watch manufacturers never to have left the hands of its founding families.  In this role, Dana manages the marketing, advertising, and public relations efforts for the United States and Canada.

Prior to joining Audemars Piguet, Ms. Hagendorf established strong luxury brand experience in both the hospitality and automotive sectors. In her most recent position at St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, she served as the brand’s Senior Director of Marketing, developing the global marketing strategy for 12 St. Regis hotels worldwide.  Dana was also instrumental in the openings of the San Francisco, Bora Bora, and Fort Lauderdale properties.  Prior to St. Regis, Ms. Hagendorf was the Director of Marketing and Communications at BMW in New York City, where she had regional marketing and advertising responsibility for BMW cars and motorcycles, and executed the launch of the MINI Cooper.  As a Global Marketing Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ms. Hagendorf’s team was responsible for creating the firm’s new global corporate identity during the company’s merger.

Ms. Hagendorf earned an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS with Honors from Cornell University. Currently, Dana lives in New York City and serves on the Board of the New York Women in Communications Foundation.  She is also active with both City Harvest and Share Our Strength.

Karen Karpowich
MAI

In the late 1980s and early '90s Karen was Senior Vice President and headed account management divisions for Scali, McCabe, Sloves and Ketchum. At that time she became involved with women’s empowerment issues developing content for the UN’s Women Conference in Beijing. In 1994 she was National Director for Mothers’ Network, a membership organization for first-time moms based on the AARP model.

In 1998 she joined iVillage.com, the largest community of women on the Internet. As Vice President of Sponsorship Marketing she developed and managed all their Fortune 500 Partnerships.

In 2002 she created the Trendsetters Network. The network, formed in conjunction with the New York City Board of Education and major corporations like Verizon, HBO and the New York Times, was designed to cultivate the interest of girls in careers in science, medicine, engineering and technology.

She has served on the Student Affairs and Nominating Committees of New York Women in Communications. From 2001 to 2004 as part of the steering committee for Women in New Media she was responsible for its membership and marketing strategies. In 2004 she worked on the dissolution of the organization and its plan to join with NYWICI.

For the New York Women’s Agenda she is Vice President of the Board and Chair of their major fund raiser, the Star Breakfast. It’s an annual event that is attended by over 1,000 individuals. NYWA is a women’s advocacy group, founded by Eleanor Guggenheim in 1992 and represents 100 women’s associations, business, health, community and faith-based groups.

Karen was recently appointed to Community Board 8 on the Upper East Side by the Office of Manhattan Borough President. She is also a poet whose work has been published both online and in print.

Beth-Ellen Keyes
Managing Director
SpeakerSpace

As a corporate communications professional, Beth-Ellen has strategic experience across many industries, including entertainment, internet and new media, publishing, financial services, healthcare and telecommunications.   Her particular skills include conference development and corporate event management, advertising and promotion, marketing communications and marketing strategy, public relations, media outreach and corporate sponsorship solicitation.  In 1997, Beth-Ellen established SpeakerSpace, a conference development and corporate communications consultancy, which she continues to operate.

Her clients have included Variety Magazine, Richard Saul Wurman's TED conferences, Ziff Davis, Key3Media, govworks, Winstar and Creative Good.  Prior to founding SpeakerSpace, Beth-Ellen managed Variety Magazine's portfolio of national conferences and events, including The Big Picture, ShowBiz Expo and the Los Angeles and Miami ShowBiz Summits. Beth-Ellen has previously served on the boards of Anthology Film Archives and the New Group (off-Broadway theatre company) and belongs to the Creative Coalition, New York Women in Technology, Webgrrls, Emily's List and the All Stars Project. Additionally, she is the co-Founder of Boardwalk Films, an independent film finance and production company.
 

Timi Lewis
Media Consultant

Timi previously served as Director of Corporate Affairs & Strategic Planning for NYC Media Group.  In this role she managed external communications, digital media production, and strategic partnerships. Timi was also involved in programming across all NYC Media Group properties, including the network’s broadcast TV and radio stations. She also handled station relations and numerous special projects on behalf of the network.  Prior to joining NYC Media Group, Timi was a Project Manager with the Corporate Social Responsibility group at Ernst & Young LLP. Her project work ranged from developing tools to assist with employee volunteerism to implementing eco-friendly changes to internal business operations. Timi was formerly a Senior Consultant with the International Trade practice of the same firm. Before joining Ernst & Young, Timi worked as a Senior Associate in the International Trade and Customs group of Arthur Andersen LLP.Timi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She served as an AmeriCorp volunteer in Washington, DC, before going back to school to earn a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
 

Audrey B. Pass
Senior Director of Communications and Public Affairs
WNYW-TV/ FOX5 and WWOR-TV/ My9

Audrey B. Pass has enjoyed a 20-year career as a corporate communications and public relations specialist and media strategist. 

Pass is currently the Senior Director of Communications and Public Affairs for WNYW-TV/ FOX5 and WWOR-TV/ My9, the Fox-owned flagship television stations in New York. In this capacity, she oversees media and talent relations, as well as public and community affairs.  Pass serves as executive producer for two weekly public affairs programs, “Good Day Street Talk” and New Jersey Now.”  She has also executive produced the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Hispanic Day Parade, and Gospelfest 2008.  Previously, Pass was Director of Communications for WCBS-TV, where she oversaw media relations and corporate communications, including news, local programming, talent relations, community relations and public affairs.  Pass joined CBS from Harpo Productions in Chicago, where she served as Senior Publicist for Oprah Winfrey, Oprah’s Angel Network, Oprah’s Book Club and Harpo, Inc.  Before that, Pass was Director of Marketing and Public Relations for The Second City, Inc. and Assistant Director of Marketing and Press Relations for the Museum of Broadcast Communications.   

Pass serves on numerous Boards of Directors, including the Alliance for Young Urban Design and the Arts and the Publicity Club of New York.  She serves on the advisory boards of the New York Blood Center, the Committee for Hispanic Children & Families, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Puerto Rican Family Institute, and Harlem Week.   She is a member of New York Women in Communications and PR Masterminds.

Pass graduated cum laude with a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and spent her junior year abroad studying theatre and English literature in London.  A high school graduate of The George School, Pass was selected to deliver the commencement address.   Upon graduating college, Pass moved to Chicago where she performed as a stage actress and pursued a career in arts management.  Pass resides in Westchester County with her husband, an author, and their daughter. 
 
 

Susan Schulz
Director of Special Projects
Hearst

Susan Schulz was appointed Director of Special Projects for Hearst in December 2008. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of CosmoGIRL! since July 2003, was the magazine’s executive editor, and before that she was the deputy editor, joining the magazine in November 2000.

Schulz began her career as an editorial assistant at Redbook magazine, where she learned the ropes of magazine journalism under the entertainment and articles editors. She moved on to become an assistant editor at Good Housekeeping, continuing to assist editors while also writing frequently for the Profiles section.

In 1997, Schulz moved into the teen market as an associate articles editor at YM magazine. She was promoted to senior articles editor in 1999, overseeing the articles department as well as assigning and editing features. She left the magazine in early 2000 to freelance for various magazines and websites; it was later that year that she returned to her on-staff role at CosmoGIRL!.

Since becoming Editor-in-Chief, Schulz has brought several exclusive brand franchises to the magazine, including The 50 Best Colleges for CosmoGIRL!s (an annual booklet), CosmoGIRL! to Go (a bi-annual mini shopping magazine), and a celebrity-judged community-service contest called The CosmoGIRL! Cup. Schulz has also been recognized for her work in battling the epidemic of obesity and eating disorders, winning the 2003 Media Partnership Award from the National Eating Disorders Association and a 2005 "Do Something" Award from the National Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness. Schulz is a graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, MD. She currently lives in New York City.

Saundra Thomas
Vice-President of Community Affairs
WABC-TV  

As WABC-TV’s Vice-President of Community Affairs, Saundra Thomas coordinates all public service programming, community outreach and station projects. Saundra acts as a liaison between the public and the station and recommends news and programming coverage of important topics.

Tammy Tibbetts
Web Editor
Hearst Digital Media

Tammy works for Hearst Magazines Digital Media, where she is the founding web editor of MisQuinceMag.com, MyPromStyle.com and DonateMyDress.org, the special occasion sister sites of Seventeen.com. She has created multiplatform, interactive web experiences for teen girls, including the Ultimate Prom series, and she has managed partnerships with music and retail companies, local schools and dress drive organizations nationwide.

 
Deirdre Wyeth
D.Wyeth & Associates
Web Strategy and Site Development

An award winning web executive, Deirdre Wyeth was the driving force behind the launch of Time Inc.'s Parenting.com, helped build News Corp.'s TV Guide Online, and was Executive Producer for Time Inc. Interactive's first AOL-platform multi-title feature websites. She now turns her ingenuity, her editorial background and writing talent, her managerial and organizational skills, her attention to the bottom line, and her respect for deadlines to the service of small and mid-sized businesses.

Having started on the Internet in 1995, Deirdre counts herself among the Web pioneers. Over the past nine years she has learned what does and does not work. Combining her strategic thinking and day-to-day hands-on experience with the kind of market testing that only large companies like Time Inc. and News Corp. can afford, she has honed her sense of what creates the strongest impact online. She also recognizes and avoids fads and dead-ends.

Before working on the web, Deirdre was a magazine editor, having worked at many titles (TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly), including a stint running Video Review.

Deirdre lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

 

NYWICI Student Affairs Liaisons

Rachel Bowie

Rachel Bowie is a freelance writer and editor based in New York City. She got her start in Boston, Massachusetts as the Associate Editor for Boston Common magazine, a Niche Media publication. There, she worked to launch the title and cover the entertainment, philanthropy and travel sections of the magazine. She also managed the internship program at Boston Common.

Since arriving in New York in 2008, Rachel has been working as the Associate Editor for New York Resident magazine. She is also a contributing writer for Gotham magazine, Ed2010.com and BuyWithMe.com, and works as a freelance editor for Scholastic. Rachel has been actively involved with New York Women in Communications since 2008, working on both the Matrix Awards Programming Committee and as the Director of Event Marketing for NYWICI’s Programming Committee.

Rachel grew up in Groton, Massachusetts, and received a Masters degree in journalism from Emerson College. Prior to attending Emerson, she graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. Rachel works for Wheaton as an APAC (Alumnae/i and Parent Admission Committee) Volunteer to help the Admissions Office to pre-screen student applicants based in New York.

Judith Harrison
Senior Vice President, Staffing and Diversity & Inclusion
Constituency Management Group

Judith Harrison, senior vice president, staffing and diversity & inclusion, leads the U.S. staffing function and directs the development and execution of diversity and inclusion strategies for Constituency Management Group agencies including Weber Shandwick, GolinHarris, Rogers & Cowan, FutureBrand, Octagon, Jack Morton, KRC Research, Powell Tate and Axis Communications. With more than fifteen years of experience in marketing communications services recruiting and human resources, she works with senior executives throughout the organization to provide information and counsel about employer-of-choice branding and engaging the candidate market through social networking and more traditional means. Prior to joining Constituency Management Group in 2006, Judith served as senior vice president of human resources at Ruder Finn, leading the agency’s global recruiting and retention initiatives. She began her career in recruiting as vice president of the Fry Group, which provides executive search services to public relations firms and client-side constituencies.

In addition to her human resources and recruiting expertise, Judith brings to Constituency Management Group a fifteen-year background in public relations and marketing communications. Her strength in financial services and entertainment communications was developed in project, program and department management positions at Burson-Marsteller, Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young), CBS and Media General. Judith has also provided promotion, publicity and public affairs counseling for organizations including Random House, the Italian Trade Commission, Modern Maturity and the International Art of Jazz.

Judith served the public relations firms industry’s trade group, the Council of Public Relations Firms, as chairwoman of its HR Roundtable for three years. She co-chairs the Mentoring Committee of the New York chapter of the Interpublic Group Women’s Leadership Network. Judith has been a guest lecturer in career management in public relations at NYU School of Continuing Education and has been a panelist at career seminars sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America, the National Alliance of Market Developers and the International Association of Business Communicators. She has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. Judith has also served on the boards of WorldStudio Foundation, which provides mentoring and scholarships for multicultural and economically disadvantaged art students, and the New York chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. Judith's NYWICI background includes appearing as a panelist on the "Secrets to a Successful Job Search" segment of the 2006 Student Conference, being featured in the magazine, CONNECT, and serving as a resource on specific activities. 

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Membership Director
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The Foundation's Mission

New York Women in Communications Foundation, the philanthropic arm of New York Women in Communications, Inc., cultivates leaders in our field by providing financial support, opportunities for professional development and mentoring, and entrée to a diverse community of communications professionals. We are the largest foundation for women’s communications scholarships in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut-Pennsylvania region.