AdPR alumni well represented in UGA's "40 Under 40"

Several Grady AdPR alumni were selected for UGA's "40 Under 40" class of 2012. The 40 under 40 is a distinction given by the Alumni Association to prominent graduates who have impacted "business, leadership, community, educational and/or philanthropic endeavors." Grady College was well represented with nine alumni total recognized on this year's list. 

This year's AdPR alumni include:


- Peter Dale,  ABJ ' 99, Public Relations; executive chef at The National Restaurant;
- Jehan Y. El-Jourbagy, ABJ '00, Public Relations; executive director and former partner of Jasper Co. Mentor Program/ Haygood, Lynch, Harris, Melton & Watson, LLP;
- Vivian Greentree, ABJ '00, Public Relations; director of research and public policy at Blue Star Families;
- Lorraine Hawley, ABJ '98, Advertising; director of international government relations at Archer Daniels Midland Company; 
- Mike Martin, ABJ '95, Advertising; owner and creative director of Skylab-B. 


"Being named to the UGA Alumni Association's 40 Under 40 is an incredible honor. The education I received at Grady College definitely laid the foundation for my career," said Mike Martin. " What makes Grady so special to me is how my professors view my successes as their successes. They have a genuine vested interest in the professional accomplishments of their students that lasts a lifetime. This is a testament to their passion and dedication to all of their students. Go Dawgs."

UGA alumna Lisa Ryan Howard honored with mid-career award

Lisa Ryan Howard

Lisa Ryan Howard (ABJ '92) recently received the Henry W. Grady Award for Mid-Career Achievement, which honors a mid-career graduate with 10 to 20 years experience "who has been successful and influential during their mid-career accomplishments." 

Howard, a former advertising major, was most recently the publisher of Billboard, an international weekly magazine about the music industry. Previously, she has also served many roles within Condé Nast in her career, including as the senior vice president, chief revenue officer of Fairchild Fashion Group; vice president, interactive, for Condé Nast Media Group, the company's corporate sales and marketing division; and vice president and publisher of Condé Nast's Style.com and Men.Style.com websites. In addition, Howard has also worked in accounting and other management roles in other companies such as Time Inc. In 2007, Howard was named in Advertising Age's annual "40 Under 40" list of young noteworthy individuals in the media industry.

"Lisa is a leader in the digital advertising and publishing world.This is remarkable when you consider that she graduated the year before the first Internet browser became widely available," said Dr. Karen King, the Jim Kennedy New Media Professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. " It has been fun watching her career progress from the youngest advertising sales rep at People magazine to VP of digital and multimedia integration for Conde Nast and then publisher of Billboard magazine. She is a loyal Grady alum and we are very proud to call her one of ours."

"It was extremely rewarding to be recognized by Grady this year," said Howard. "The college has supported me throughout my career -- from the Ad Club trip to New York back in 1992 just prior to graduation, to fellow alumni networking introductions and all the way through career milestones. The professors continued to help and encourage me. A huge thanks to Dean Clark, Professor King and the entire alumni staff."

Dr. Kreshel receives Award of Excellence from Alma Mater

Congratulations to Dr. Peggy Kreshel, Associate Professor of advertising in the Grady College, for receiving the Alumni Award of Excellence from the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was honored for her accomplishments at the College’s J Days in early April.

Peggy earned her undergraduate degree in advertising and psychology and later, while working as an advertising representative at The Lincoln Journal-Star, her master’s degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She taught at the College of Journalism and Mass Communication for a year prior to entering the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she earned her Ph.D. in communication research.

At the University of Georgia, Peggy was awarded the Richard B. Russell Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1992, and is a member of the Teaching Academy. Outside the university, she is active in the American Academy of Advertising (AAA) and the Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She has co-chaired the AEJMC advertising division pre-conference teaching workshop for six years, and in 2011, was awarded the division’s outstanding service award.

Peggy’s teaching responsibilities are primarily in advertising and society, media strategy, feminist media studies, and media culture and diversity. Her research interests are feminist media studies; media culture; advertising history, professional culture, and ethics. Her research has been published in a number of advertising and communication journals. She is the co-author of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, 8^th and 9^th eds.