Meet Vernae Graham,

Media Relations Manager, Western Region, Amtrak

We periodically feature veteran and new PRSA San Francisco members and tell the story of their public relations career. If you would like to suggest a PRSA San Francisco member for a profile, please send an email to info@prsasf.org.

How did you get started in public relations/communications and what has your journey looked like?

Through a strong connection (source) from my television assignment desk days, I landed in PR. This was after years in both print and broadcast journalism.

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Meet Victoria Sanchez De Alba,

President at De Alba Communications

We periodically feature veteran and new PRSA San Francisco members, and tell the story of their public relations career. If you would like to suggest a PRSA San Francisco member for a profile, please send an email to prsasf@gmail.com.

How did you get started in public relations/communications and what has your journey looked like?

Growing up in the Salinas Valley, I knew as a young girl that I wanted a career in communications so that I could help make a difference. I worked in the fields, from sixth grade …

Meet Holly Houston, APR,

Director of Communications at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

We periodically feature veteran and new PRSA San Francisco members, and tell the story of their public relations career.  If you would like to suggest a PRSA San Francisco member for a profile, please send an email to prsasf@gmail.com.

How did you get started in public relations/communications and what has your journey looked like?

I turned to public relations after spending 12 years as an award-winning television news reporter, anchor and documentary producer working in Las Vegas, Oklahoma City and Los Angeles, respectively. My …

Meet Kelly Koski,

Associate Director, Communications & Audience Development, Oakland Museum of California

We periodically feature veteran and new PRSA San Francisco members, and tell the story of their public relations career.  If you would like to suggest a PRSA San Francisco member for a profile, please send an email to prsasf@gmail.com.

How did you get started in public relations/communications and what has your journey looked like?

My communications track has primarily been focused in the non-profit arts world. After graduating with a BA in Non-Profit Business from the College of Charleston, I began my career as …

Meet David Landis,

President/CEO, Landis Communications
President, Public Relations Global Network

We periodically feature veteran and new PRSA San Francisco members, and tell the story of their public relations career.  If you would like to suggest a PRSA San Francisco member for a profile, please send an email to prsasf@gmail.com.

How did you get started in public relations/communications and what has your journey looked like?

I got started in communications like everyone else – as a music major!  I studied piano in college at Northwestern University in Chicago and decided I wanted to pursue a career in …

Meet Beth Foley,

Senior Director, Corporate Communications at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

We periodically feature veteran and new PRSA San Francisco members and tell the story of their public relations career. If you would like to suggest a PRSA San Francisco member for a profile, please send an email to info@prsasf.org.

How did you get started in public relations/communications and what has your journey looked like?

I can thank a hermit crab, believe it or not. I was starting an internship in public relations with the City of Ocean City, New Jersey. When I went to …

Meet Beverly Butler, APR, ABC

VP, Client Delivery Communications at Wells Fargo, Treasury Management

We periodically feature veteran and new PRSA San Francisco members and tell the story of their public relations career. If you would like to suggest a PRSA San Francisco member for a profile, please send an email to info@prsasf.org.

How did you get started in public relations/communications and what has your journey looked like? 

My first job out of college was a writer in a TV newsroom. It was the NBC Time-Life owned station in Grand Rapids, Michigan. That job, where I moved …