Our Team

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DIANE ANDERSON

AGENCY OWNER

Diane brings more than a decade of communications experience as a former magazine reporter and editor and TV producer. She has written for business and technology titles like Forbes, Fortune, and Business 2.0. She helped launch and produce Bloomberg Television’s Bloomberg Technology show. Before that, she worked at Wired, the Industry Standard, Brandweek, and Yoga Journal.

She advises clients on messaging, media and communications, leveraging strategic press relationships to help companies and executives tell their stories. Diane earned a master’s degree in English and American Literature and Criticism from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Literature from Claremont McKenna College.

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Lori Luechtefeld

Wookit Media LLC

Lori spent 15 years in the journalism and editorial world, most recently serving as editor-in-chief at iMedia. In this role, she wrote more articles than she cares to admit and had the final word on the rest of the content that appeared on iMedia Connection. In other words, she knows all too well what it takes to get a column published in leading industry publications. Today, she puts that experience to use by helping clients identify the topics that will resonate with editors and readers, assisting executives in shaping their thoughts around compelling topics, then weaving those thoughts into tightly written, cohesive, and infinitely publishable op-eds and bylines.

Bill Brazell

Bill Brazell

Validation Strategies

Having worked with top business and technology journalists at Wired and as a senior editor at the Industry Standard Magazine, with elite business authors as a senior book editor at Penguin Portfolio, and with top bloggers as director of author recruiting at Federated Media, Bill Brazell understands how journalists and bloggers think. Co-author of the humor book “He Meant, She Meant: The Definitive Male-Female Dictionary” and member of the PKD Foundation’s all-volunteer board of trustees, Bill earned a bachelors in English at Harvard, and a masters in journalism at U.C. Berkeley.

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Josh Carter

Josh is a communications professional with more than four years of experience in the journalism, editorial and media relations industries. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in Communications while minoring in Spanish. An avid skier, mountain biker and surfer, Josh is currently based in Southern California.

Alex Wolf

Alex Wolf

PHAEDRVS

Alex works as a writer and communications consultant for media and technology companies through Phaedrus. He met Diane while working at BloombergTV. He graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in Religious Studies and Politics and is based in San Francisco.

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