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Top 20 Women in Dallas Advertising Chat About Their Jobs

The AAF Dallas Shining Stars inaugural award ceremony took place June 13th at House of Blues, to honor and celebrate the the creativity, ambition and leadership of the top 20 women in Dallas advertising.  Nominated and voted in by their peers, these women run the gamut from C-level executives and Co-Founders to Group Creative Directors and Media Strategists. AAF Dallas teamed up with presenting sponsor, SMU Temerlin Advertising Institute to make the luncheon a huge success.

The Dallas Shining Star program was created by AAF Dallas to elevate Dallas as a top advertising market and to show off the incredible talented women we have in our advertising and marketing communities. Since the metroplex has become a hot spot for Fortune 500 headquarters, local advertising, media and marketing agencies are turning New York, Los Angeles and Chicago agencies on their ear. It’s a no-brainer that these top 20 women will continue to help make that happen.

AdChat DFW interviewed a few of the award recipients. We asked them these “serious” questions:

  1. What’s the best part of your job?
  2. What’s the worst?
  3. Did you choose to go into advertising or did it just happen?
  4. What star would you choose to replace you for a day and why?
  5. Describe in one word how it feels to be a Dallas Shining Star.

You can imagine the fun we had with their answers.

Watch interviews…

Dallas Shining Stars

April Steinbach
Creative Director at Organic

Becca Weigman
CEO at TM Advertising

Dacia Coffey
CEO at The Marketing Blender

Dawn Maire
President, Chief Strategy Officer at Rockfish Digital

Elba Intriago,
Co-Founder, EVP at Inspire Agency

Haley Dugas
Director of Sales at Pandora

Ivonne Kinser
Director, Digital Marketing at Avocados from Mexico

Jennifer Bell
Group Creative Director at Publicis Hawkeye

Jody Venturoni
Partner at LDWW

Kala Brock
Media Planner at Next Media

Kalyn Asher
Owner at Asher Media

Kari Kowalski
Senior Media Manager at Pizza Hut

Lauren Pels
Sr. Designer at Rockfish Digital

Laurie Evans
Brand Media at The Richards Group

Linda Rutherford
Chief Communications Officer at Southwest Airlines

Lindsey Goldstein
Creative Director at  MonkeyTag

Marissa Deslatte
Strategic Marketing Manager at Nobilis Health

Shannon Phillips
Group Creative Director at Johnson & Sekin

Sherri Krekeler
Group Creative Director at TracyLocke

Trina Roffino
GVP/Chief Client Officer at The Marketing Arm

 

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