AAF Dallas is celebrating the 3rd annual Shining Stars awards program which honors top women in Dallas advertising. In 2017, we launched our AAF Dallas Shining Stars program to celebrate amazing women doing amazing things in Dallas advertising. Inspired after attending the Southwest Advertising Hall of Fame event, we googled “top women in Dallas advertising” and the result was “The 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas” instead of finding women who are producing thought-provoking and innovative work, breaking through barriers to create something new, or forging partnerships that drive growth. We believe ambition, work ethic, creativity, and leadership are qualities to celebrate and elevate. We believe when you get 25 incredible women in a room, great things happen. We believe it’s time that the nation recognizes our city as the talented advertising market that we are…and so the AAF Dallas Shining Star program lives on. See last year’s group here.
The AAF Dallas Shining Stars Gala presented by SMU Advertising will be held at The Bomb Factory on May 23, 2019. Dress code is formal. Table reservations will begin on April 12, 2019. This event has consistently sold out so there are no individual ticket sales at this time. Please register for our mailing list if you would like to be notified if individual tickets go on sale. For information about tables reservations reach out to Allison Farris at allison@aafdallas.org.
We’re thrilled to announce the third class of AAF Dallas Shining Stars. These women are Community Leaders, C-Suite Executives, Co-Founders, Executive VPs, Strategic Masterminds, Media Mavens, and more. They are breaking glass ceilings and elevating the Dallas advertising community to heights we have never seen before! Congratulations!
THE 2019 AAF DALLAS SHINING STARS:
Alayna Oram, Corporate Director, Marketing at Omni Hotels & Resorts
Allison Burzlaff, Senior Copywriter at TracyLocke*
Amanda Abrams, Creative Director Team One
Amanda Guerra Koch, Director, Connection & Insight Strategy at Saatchi & Saatchi
Amy Vollet, SVP, Executive Media Director at The Integer Group
Audrey Berger, Principal at Quadratic*
Cheryl Huckabay, Managing Principal – Brand Media at The Richards Group*
Diane Seimetz Duncan, Principal at Launch Agency*
Erin Bryant, Sales Director at Pandora
Karie Scuiller, Account Director at Caliber Creative
Kathleen Colditz, EVP, Customer Engagement Strategy at The Marketing Arm
Kim Moss, Chief Media Officer at TM Advertising*
Kimberly Tyner, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Spire Agency
Krista McCrimmon, Creative Director at Johnson & Sekin*
Luann Boggs, VP of Business Development at bloomfield knoble advertising*
Mary Price, Brand Media, Group Head at The Richards Group*
Megan Ward, Director of Project and Resource Management at Firehouse
Paloma Fuentes, Brand Manager at Richards/Lerma*
Pam Watkins, SVP, Business amd Media Strategy at MCC
Robin Thomas, Director of Media at Chili’s
Sandi Edgar, Marketing Specialist at Temerlin Advertising Institute*, AAF Dallas Education Chair
Sarah Beddoe, Vice President, Marketing at Pizza Hut
Shelia Lemon, Founder, CEO & President of Citrus Advertising
Suzanne La Forgia, Senior Vice President of Captivate*, Past President of AAF Dallas, 2nd Lt. Governor of AAF Tenth District
Tracy Armstrong, Senior Manager, Brand Communications at Southwest Airlines
*denotes corporate members of AAF Dallas
THANK YOU TO THIS YEAR’S SPONSORS!
Title Sponsor: SMU Advertising
Gold Sponsor: Captivate
Silver Sponsor : The Goodway Group
