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Margo Donohue has over 12 years public relations experience. She comes to Switchback Public Relations + Marketing, Inc. after serving as director of public relations for the Conde Nast Bridal Group in charge of all consumer press for Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Your Prom magazines. In addition to those responsibilities, she oversaw the publicity for the business/publishing side of the Conde Nast Bridal Group as well. Included in her duties were the day-to-day management of the brand, writing all press releases and press materials, coordinating TV and print interviews and editor media training.
Prior to that she worked at Gruner & Jahr Publishing handling the consumer press for Child, Fitness and YM magazines. She also worked at Conde Nast in the public relations department for both Mademoiselle and GQ before joining the launch team of Lucky magazine.
Donohue has experience with both consumer and business press and event management. She oversaw the YM "Voting is Pretty" campaign and the "Coolest Girls of the Year" awards as well as the Child "Children's Champions Awards" for two years. Some of her placements include "Entertainment Tonight," "The Today Show," "Good Morning America", "MTV TRL Live", The New York Times, People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Advertising Age.
Previously, Ms. Donohue worked at Dan Klores Communications on accounts as diverse as W Hotels, Sesame Street Productions, Esquire and Marie Claire magazines and the "Queen Latifah Show". She began her career in book publishing working for such diverse companies as DK Publishing, Hyperion Books and National Geographic Books.
As a consultant, Donohue has worked on a variety of projects from the annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall, the New York Women in Communications MATRIX awards, the da Vinci exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. as well as a variety of beauty, fashion, liquor and healthcare brands.
Ms. Donohue is a graduate of San Jose State University and resides in Brooklyn, NY. In her spare time she loves music, reading, museums, travel, a good meal paired with fine wine and rarely misses her Sunday morning 9:00 am Spin class.
A certified spin instructor, she teaches several classes per week and recently completed her first 60-mile bike tour around New York City and New Jersey for the MS Society. Her next mission is to perfect her power chord changes on the electric guitar.
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