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For Immediate Release
Contact: Andy Richardson, GR-PR
(630) 789-8555
Navarro of Chicago promoted at GR-PR
[Hinsdale, Ill - October 17, 2007]
Chicago resident Jennifer Navarro has been promoted
to Director, Arts & Entertainment Division at Ginny
Richardson Public Relations (GR-PR) in Hinsdale. She
will handle a full range of public relations duties
including creating, implementing and managing media
relations campaigns for clients in the arts and
entertainment industries.
“Jennifer has achieved exemplary results for all
her accounts, but particularly for those in the
cultural and performing arts,” said Ginny
Richardson, president of GR-PR. "She has a passion
for the arts and is enthusiastic about sharing her
clients’ stories with the media and the public.”
Navarro has an interesting history with GR-PR.
In 2000, she interned at GR-PR and later was hired
as a part-time employee during her senior year of
college. Following graduation, Navarro worked as a
copywriter for Tritech Marketing in Burr Ridge and
later as the Assistant Director of Development for
Northeast DuPage Special Recreation Association (NEDSRA) in
Addison . She rejoined GR-PR as an account executive
in 2004.
She
has received top public relations awards in her
three years at GR-PR. Last spring, she was honored
with a Merit Award from the Public Relations Society
of America (PRSA) Chicago Chapter , and she received
two consecutive (2006 and 2007) Golden Trumpets, the
highest award given by the Publicity Club of
Chicago, for her work with Von Heidecke’s Chicago
Festival Ballet.
Navarro received a Bachelor of Arts degree in
English with a minor in Communications from Trinity
Christian College in Palos Heights as well as
a Master of Business degree with a certificate in
not-for-profit management from Chicago’s Roosevelt
University.
During
her undergraduate studies, Navarro was flown to New
York to receive an honorable mention in the Elie
Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay competition, a national
contest held for college students in the fields of
writing and communications. More than 285 entries
were submitted, and Navarro and four others were
honored personally by the celebrated author and his
wife.
Ginny Richardson Public
Relations is a Hinsdale-based PR firm serving
clients in business, healthcare and the arts. For
more information, visit:
http://www.gr-pr.com
or call 630-789-8555.
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