Meet The Fellows: Ro Kalonaros

Ro Kalonaros connects, elevates, and amplifies the deep collective knowledge and brilliant creative work of Omnicom’s 70,000+ employees globally to facilitate agile and efficient collaboration across the network. She spearheads the strategic direction of OMC Hive, Omnicom’s internal knowledge sharing platform, and uses the platform’s business and cultural intelligence to advise cross-functional teams at the…

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Meet The Fellows: Brittany Johnson

  Brittany Johnson is a Content Supervisor at Spark Foundry. She is a St. Louis native (Go Cards!) and a Loyola University of Chicago alum. She began her career in multicultural media strategy, and her passions led her to branded content & entertainment. Brittany’s previous clients include Procter & Gamble (P&G), State Farm, Wrigley, and Citi Bank. What she…

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Meet The Fellows: Laura Marie Mariel

  Laura Marie Mariel is an award-winning Senior Art Director with nearly a decade of advertising experience. She’s worked on both national and international clients including, but not limited to, Nissan, Smucker’s, State Farm, Applebee’s, PreparationH and Always. She’s garnered global recognition from some of the most prestigious festivals, including New York Festival, D&AD and…

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Meet The Fellows: Pilar Mera

  Pilar Mera is the Director of Trade Marketing for the NBCUniversal Hispanic Group  (Telemundo, Telemundo Deportes & Universo) where she and her team develop the go-to market plans for the NBCUniversal One Platform through strategic trade communications.  She previously focused on NBCUniversal Entertainment Group (USA, SYFY, and WWE) where she led client experiences for…

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Meet The Fellows: Imani Albert

  Imani Albert is a social media manager and strategist at VMLY&R New York, a global full-service creative agency. Previously, Imani worked as a social media strategist at global PR agency, FleishmanHillard. Through culture-first thinking, Imani has worked with brands across apparel, food & beverage, entertainment, beauty, and more, to create social campaigns that make…

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Meet The Fellows: Nancy Nguyen

  Nancy Nguyen is a brand strategist and social activist who uses creative storytelling to uplift marginalized narratives, shift perspectives, and make a difference in the world. Nancy has produced multimedia campaigns (print/digital/video/events/Influencers) for brands like Target, Amazon, HBO, NBC, Elizabeth Arden, Dove, Kraft, and more. While not working in media and advertising, Nancy is…

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Meet The Fellows: Lavon Coker

  Lavon is an executor, problem solver, and natural collaborator. She excels at transforming abstract ideas into rich multi-faceted marketing experiences and is unafraid of addressing inevitable challenges. Lavon launched her Advertising career at CBS Radio’s 92.3NOW, a New York City-based network, anchored by lead personality Nick Cannon. Here, she was able to learn the…

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Meet The Fellows: Arielle Wiltz

  Arielle Wiltz is currently an Interaction (UX) Designer at Morgan Stanley, where she works on the Wealth Management team as a Design lead on one of their products. Before Morgan Stanley, she worked at frog Design, a transformative design agency – designing systems for brands, products, and services. Her previous design work includes clients…

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Meet The Fellows: Donna Dei-Baning

  Donna Dei-Baning is the Associate Director of Insights at Carat where she is responsible for identifying and understanding the individuals most critical to clients’ business goals. She brings the voice of the consumer to all client work and ensures that there is an emotional connection throughout the media planning process through to execution. Prior…

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Meet The Fellows: Kristen Dufauchard

  Kristen Dufauchard is a marketing and communications leader with over ten years of experience designing and delivering campaigns for colleges, universities, government organizations, businesses, and international brands. She currently serves as the Associate Director of Communications for the NYU Libraries. Her role is responsible for leading the global division’s newly formed Department of Communications,…

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