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Reporter Kimberly Maul talks with Olga Romero, bilingual communications specialist for Southwest Airlines, about the company’s participation in the Hispanic PR Conference, its outreach to the Hispanic community, and how the Continental-United merger may affect Southwest and its communications.
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This interview with Axis Agency President Armando Azarloza is a week old but is worthy of being seen by those who couldn’t attend last week’s Hispanic PR & Social Media Conference. Big kudos to PR Week and reporter Kimberly Maul also for providing thorough reporting of several key sessions at the conference. Asi se [...]
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This week’s Hispanic PR Leader Profile is with Rosanna Fiske, CEO and Chair-Elect of the Public Relations Society of America. Fiske is the first Latina to hold PRSA’s top position. A passionate advocate for diversity in communications, she will be the keynote speaker of the upcoming Hispanic PR & Social Media Conference’s opening reception on May [...]
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This week’s Hispanic PR Leader Profile is with youth motivational speaker Fabian Ramirez based out of Dallas, TX. Fabian has worked with at-risk youth for over ten years and continues to be a driving force in motivating students to finish high school and continue on to college. Ramirez is also founder and publisher of the [...]
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This week’s Hispanic PR Leader profile is with Miriam Galicia-Duarte, Census Partnership Specialist.
HPRB: What was your childhood ambition?
Miriam Duarte: I was very curious and daring. My ambition was to take a chance to explore and experience as many new things as possible.
HPRB: Tell us about three people you admire and why?
MD: Three people that [...]
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This week’s Hispanic PR Leader profile is with Hector Galvan, director of public relations for Sprint.
HPRB: What was your childhood ambition?
HECTOR GALVAN: My childhood ambition was to become an architect. That field intrigued me, I guess because of the construction things my dad did at home. I also wanted (a career) that could make [...]
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This week’s Hispanic PR Blog interview is with Lucia Matthews, president of Dialogo PR in San Diego.
What was your childhood ambition?
With the exception of being a professional singer, I never had a real “career” dream as a child. However, since I grew up a big city girl, I was exposed to quite an eclectic [...]
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Melissa Smith is executive vice president of RLPR. She manages the New York office of RLPR which is headquartered in Los Angeles under the leadership of Roxana Lissa.
What was your childhood ambition?
I was a moody kid with a big personality – not too dissimilar to who I am today! I loved to [...]
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Jorge Ortega is president of The Jeffrey Group, one of the nation’s largest serving both the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American PR markets.
What was your childhood ambition?
Well, to be honest I have always wanted to have my own talk show. As an adult I have considered this ambition further but have not really [...]
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Romina Bongiovanni, originally from Argentina, is vice president of Edelman’s multicultural practice. She is the immediate past president of the Los Angeles-based Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA).
Tell us about your educational background?
I studied Hotel Management in Buenos Aires’ Centro Internacional de Hotelería y Servicios where I graduated with honors. Once I moved to California, I [...]
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Jorge Plasencia is Chairman and CEO of República.
What was your childhood ambition?
I always wanted to have my own business. It was my passion. I was one of those kids selling lemonade on the sidewalk. I was lucky. I landed an internship at age 14 in the promotions department of a radio station…the rest is history! [...]
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Deborah Charnes Vallejo is Vice President/Director of Public Relations for Bromley Communications.
Tell us about your educational background?
As a college freshman, I dreamed of being an international reporter. My school’s journalism program didn’t allow me to take any journalism courses until my third year. In the meantime, within Liberal Arts & Sciences, I began to drift [...]
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