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Deborah P. BlanchardDirector of Communications and Marketing 434.544.8664 A native of Mississippi, Deborah is responsible for developing and implementing organization-wide integrated marketing communications strategies to ensure that the LC mission is advanced at the local, regional, and national levels. Deborah comes to Lynchburg College after serving as Director of Communications and Public Relations at Danville's Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), an outreach endeavor of Virginia Tech. A versatile communications professional with more than 25 years experience, Deborah's Memphis-based marketing and communications consulting company completed projects for a variety of organizations including Fed Ex, Best Western, AFLAC, Wal-Mart, Target, and the major fast food chains. She has worked with numerous educational institutions and non-profits including FHA, FFA, FBLA, and Vietnam Veterans of America. Deborah is married to former sociology professor and all-around Renaissance man Tom Blanchard; she has three children: daughter Robin, who is in medical school at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences; Ryan, who begins a Ph.D. program in Cognitive Neuroscience at Berkeley this fall; and son Drew, who graduated from Rhodes College and is now working as a financial analyst for Raymond James in Memphis. Her stepson Sam is also headed to Berkeley as a staff researcher where he will use his newly received M.A. in geographic information science to pursue research in his chosen field of study, remote sensing, and GIS. |
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Anne NashDirector of Publications 434.544.8538 Anne graduated from Lynchburg College with a degree in political science and worked as a public assistance social worker, psychiatric social worker, and an assistant economic analyst before settling down to raise her two daughters in Little Rock, Arkansas, her adopted state. In 1979 she joined the University of Arkansas System as a writer and has been in higher education publications or development work ever since (with the exception of a four-year stint at the Old State House Museum, where Al Gore used her office to wait for the 1992 election dog-and-pony victory show). In 2006 she was recognized by the Central Virginia Mental Health Association as volunteer of the year for her work as a co-facilitator for the Suicide Survivors Group for persons who have lost a loved one to suicide. She is passionate about three things: her two daughters, her grandchildren, and sailing, which she learned as a competitor in the sport, spending nearly half her time capsized in the water during the first year of competition. She now owns Layla, a non-capsizing bigger sailboat, which lives at Smith Mountain Lake. |
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Shannon BrennanDirector of Media Relations, Editor of Lynchburg College Magazine 434.544.8609 After spending 14 years in low-paying newspaper reporting jobs from Florida to Maine (most recently at The News & Advance in Lynchburg), Shannon returned to higher education in 2006. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1993 to 1998, Shannon was assistant director of media relations at nearby Randolph College, formerly known as Randolph-Macon Woman's College. After college, she spent a year in the Peace Corps in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Notice how places change names after Shannon has been there. An avid environmentalist, Shannon serves on the board of the Central Virginia Land Conservancy. She also serves on the College's Natural Resources Committee. Her daughter Jessie is an honors student at Old Dominion University. |
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Betty Cooper McKinneyDirector of Advertising 434.544.8834 A native of Lynchburg, Betty is a graduate of Lynchburg College with a B.A. degree in English and music. A former newspaper reporter, she was vice president and Western Region marketing director of a Virginia bank before joining the College Communications and Marketing Office at her alma mater. She and fellow alum, Carolyn Eubank, who recently retired from the College, are co-authors of Lynchburg College: More Than Books and Bricks, a coffee table-style book published in 2006. A choral music conductor, Betty has served as music director at several area churches and currently sings with the Lynchburg College Choral Union. She is married to Jim McKinney, also an LC graduate, and they have a daughter and granddaughter. |
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Pam CarderAdministrative Assistant 434.544.8325 |
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Katharine StevensGraphic Designer 434.544.8626 Through a fortuitous series of events, Katharine landed back in higher ed as a designer for LC. A native of Altavista, Virginia, she graduated summa cum laude from Radford University in 1999 with a B.F.A. with a concentration in graphic design. At the ripe old age of 22, she was awarded Best in Show from the Roanoke Valley Advertising Federation for her design of the Macbeth theatre poster, done while she was a student worker in Radford’s Creative Services office. Since joining the LC staff in 2000, Katharine has earned somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) and ADDY (American Advertising Federation) awards. She likes to keep them on a dusty shelf, which boggles the minds of her coworkers. A typographic nerd, Katharine’s other design passions include the work of Saul Bass, anything letterpress or silkscreened, and the challenge of a two-color job. One of her other passions in life is amassing a truly ridiculous amount of trivia and factoids. (Fact: The most misused SSN of all time is 078-05-1120. Google it.) And if she were to hit the Mega Millions, she’d take a leave of absence (come on, I can’t really say I’d quit on my employer’s website – ks) to ride roller coasters and redesign — for free — all the horrible menus she comes across on an all-too-frequent basis. |
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Christopher PetersonGraphic Designer 434.544.8149 Chris joined the College Communications and Marketing staff in July 2006 as a graphic designer. Born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Chris graduated with a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and worked as a designer at William Longhauser Design and Allemann Almquist & Jones, both in Philadelphia. In recent years, Chris and his wife settled in Central Virginia, where Chris worked as a freelance designer until joining the Lynchburg College staff. |
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Kris Martin-BakerDirector of Web Services 434.544.8269 Kris began working with Internet technology in 1999 and joined the LC staff in 2003. She has a B.A. in Mathematics from Goshen College and an M.B.A. from Lynchburg College; she also studied music at Indiana University and art at James Madison University. As well as multiple web scripting languages, Kris enjoys studying design (graphic, interface and user experience) and cognitive science. After hours, she sings and builds musical instruments. |
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David WoodyWeb Technical Analyst 434.544.8068 |
Katy RostWeb Content Developer and Trainer 434.544.8967 Katy joined the LC staff in 2011. She has been working in the web field for higher education for six years. An Ohio native, she is a 2001 graduate of Georgetown College in Kentucky. |
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Tracy ChaseWeb Designer 434.544.8145 |
