_Anne Marie Mitchell
Anne Marie Mitchell began her career as a city desk reporter for the South Bend Tribune, covering the police and fire beats and countless human-interest features for that Indiana paper’s more than 300,000 readers.
Anne Marie then went to work with the media on behalf of the energy industry. As media manager for a major energy company, she spent several years helping to build media and consumer interest in the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) business, worked with local and national reporters on environmental issues, and raised the profile of the company’s research and development efforts.
Later, she represented one of the nation’s largest utilities with more than 1.6 million customers. In helping the company weather summer storms and system shortfalls, Anne Marie spoke with hundreds of print, television and radio reporters, including several interviews with the Hispanic media outlet, Telemundo. She also has served as a spokesperson for a global agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer and a non-profit child welfare agency among others.
Anne Marie is an associate with WPNT, a communications consulting firm providing media and presentation skills training. She’s currently on the full-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago, the largest and most diverse private arts and media college in the nation, where she teaches strategic media relations, social change communication, social media and PR strategies, among other courses.
Anne Marie is fluent in Spanish, and has lived and traveled extensively in Spain, Mexico and South America. A native of Chicago, she has a Bachelors degree in Journalism and Spanish from Indiana University, and a Masters in Spanish Literature from Loyola University.
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