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Accomplished Writer/Storyteller and Former Reporter/Columnist with 25 years of print media experience.
Most notably, I am a former Reporter and Columnist for the Pulitzer-prize winning Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where I spent nearly 20 years covering a variety of important beats, including City Hall, county government, courts, education and business.
Alice Hicks watched her family's heating bill soar and a down payment for a home disappear after Milwaukee's coldest winter on record. The family recently paid the last installment on a $1,600 heating bill from last winter, which depleted much of the money they had saved to buy their first home.
Pa Britney Xiong is one of Milwaukee's rising young business leaders, part of a new generation of Hmong entrepreneurs who are more engaged on a civic level than their parents. That connectivity is helping them to expand their businesses outside of closely knit ethnic communities.
As the only Hispanic franchise operator of McDonald's in Milwaukee, Rafael Luciano is a driving force for job creation and neighborhood revitalization on the city's predominantly Latino south side. Luciano, a former Xerox manager, owns and operates four McDonald's restaurants in Milwaukee - with two on the south side at South 16th and West Washington streets and South 14th Street and West Burnham Avenue.
Long considered the ticket to prosperity, law schools are now fighting to remain relevant. Many prospective students are considering the long-term costs of attending law school and are deciding it's not worth the investment amid a dismal job market for young lawyers.
International students are streaming onto American college campuses in unprecedented numbers. However, many of them face significant financial and academic hurdles as they advance in their studies, placing greater demands on schools to better serve these students' needs and expectations.
In dealing with a health crisis, patients will often turn to their religious beliefs and practices to help them cope. Yet many physicians and medical students are unsure how to address the spiritual needs of their patients. At the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Aamir Hussain is working to close that gap.
Melanie Beres remembers when doors were closed to her as a young woman trying to launch her women's magazine, CitiGal. It was the early 1990s. At the time, Beres was running Midwest Rock Opera Company, a musical theater group that empowers women on stage and behind the scenes and still operates today.
By Tannette Johnson-Elie Caroline Ceniza-Levine is among a growing number of women business owners who are leveraging social media to take their entrepreneurial ventures to the next level. Ceniza-Levine has harnessed the power of popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest to build her brand as a career and business coach and workplace expert, and to help promote and grow the company she co-founded - SixFigureStart.
Marketwired Blog IR/PR | Published by Dagmar King | February 19, 2015 By Tannette Johnson-Elie The press release is an important part of the PR
Social media has dramatically changed the way journalists share content and it's become a powerful communication tool that they can leverage like never before. Now journalists can write stories, post them on Twitter or Facebook and have them go viral.
