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		<title>Edward Hopkins, Maryland Emergency Management Agency</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Hopkins currently serves as Director of External Affairs and Communications for the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) where he oversees all external communications and liaisons, public awareness and media messaging, and  legislative affairs. He has been with MEMA since 2007 and has served as their Chief of Staff, Deputy Director of Operations, and as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Toohey, Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill has worked in public information in Baltimore since 1988, having served as Public Information Director for the city housing department and press secretary for two of Maryland’s US Senators – Barbara Mikulski and Paul Sarbanes. He served as the Baltimore County Police Department’s Media Relations Director until January 2010 and then moved on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cynthia Powell, CP Knowhow</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Powell, owner of CP Knowhow, is a big-picture strategic thinker and a guerrilla PR practitioner. Cynthia plans and leads nonprofit and corporate positioning and media campaigns that get the word out in ink, create blogger buzz, and put clients on radio and TV. She ghostwrites and places op-eds, letters to the editor, and news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amanda Karfakis, Vitamin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most PR professionals break into the business after college. Amanda Karfakis got her first break at age 10. Born to a family of Greek immigrants Amanda grew up in the public eye, working in her family&#8217;s 24-hour diner in Ithaca, New York.  There, she mastered the art of communicating with the public, from promotion to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ragina Averella, AAA Mid-Atlantic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Public &#38; Government Affairs Manager for AAA Mid-Atlantic, Ragina Averella serves as the chief spokesperson for AAA in Maryland. She is responsible for media and government relations for the auto club, which serves nearly four million members throughout the Mid-Atlantic and nearly one million Marylanders. In her role at AAA, Ms. Averella advocates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Collins, Mercy Medical Center</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A summa cum laude graduate of Loyola College with a master&#8217;s degree from Johns Hopkins University, Dan is the Senior Director of Media Relations at Mercy Medical Center and has served as the downtown hospital&#8217;s media liaison since 1996. He is also the Baltimore Public Relations blogger for Examiner.com. A former full-time journalist with stints [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheryl Knauer, Nevins &amp; Associates</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheryl Knauer is an account executive at Nevins &#38; Associates, a marketing and communications firm based in Hunt Valley. At Nevins &#38; Associates, she works with a variety of clients, including Morton&#8217;s The Steakhouse, the Maryland Women&#8217;s Heritage Center, the Cosmetic Surgery Center of Maryland, eduTrax, among others. Previously, she worked at the Maryland Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amy Mannarino, Walters Art Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Mannarino is the Manager of Public Relations at the Walters Art Museum, one of a few museums worldwide to present a comprehensive history of art from the third millennium B.C. to the early 20th century. She is responsible for supervising media relations and publicity campaigns for exhibitions, education programs, special events and museum news. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sedonia Martin, Towson University</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sedonia Martin is the Manager of Public Relations for Arts and Culture at Towson University and has over 25 years of public relations experience having worked in corporate and non-profit environments.  At Towson University she is responsible for the promotion of over 400 arts and culture events. She has generated over $400,000 worth of media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aaron Koos, Constellation Energy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Koos is a senior communications consultant for Constellation Energy&#8217;s commercial power businesses.  This includes managing communications for the company&#8217;s renewable power and energy efficiency initiatives. He joined Constellation in 2006, having previously served as a vice president at the public relations agency Wills &#38; Associates, Inc.  There he managed agency client accounts and was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawn Ward, American Cancer Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dawn Ward is the Communications and Marketing Director for the American Cancer Society.  Ward joined the Society&#8217;s South Atlantic Division, one of 13 chartered Divisions throughout the United States, in December 2004.  She is responsible for developing and implementing strategic marketing and branding efforts, communications, public relations and media relations specific to the Maryland and [...]]]></description>
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