Maureen Chase

Founder / Chase Communications

Ms. Chase owns, manages and operates Chase Communications, which specializes in book publicity, meeting and event planning, business and travel writing, and Hispanic publicity. Clients and spokespersons include: model/actress Karen Duffy, National Book Award winner Joseph Ellis, publicity firm Planned TV Arts, and Global Connections, an international meeting planning firm.

She has been published in the Tampa Tribune and The Stars and Stripes newspapers, among others, and has received fellowships for her writing. Ms. Chase was a contributing reporter in 1996 at Main City, an English-language magazine affiliated with Germany’s second-leading daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She has reported from many countries, including Kenya, Chile, Argentina, Russia, Germany, Finland, Estonia, and Sweden.

Ms. Chase is recognized as a television commentator on public image and the media and has covered topics from President Clinton to children and the media. She has been a frequent guest on Washington, D.C.’s FOX MORNING NEWS and has been interviewed by: CNN, Bloomberg News, America’s Voice, Good Day New York, Good Day Philadelphia, Attaché, Publishers Weekly, and Gannett News Service, among others.

Ms. Chase is the former publicity director at Planned Television Arts (PTA), a division of Ruder Finn Washington where she worked for five years to help establish the PTA Washington, DC office. Ms. Chase specialized in email communication, media training and Spanish-language publicity. Ms. Chase created broadcast, print and online media campaigns targeting national and local media for a diverse client base, including corporate CEOs, celebrities, non-profits, politicians, authors, and publishing companies.

Ms. Chase has extensive experience with book and magazine promotions for authors such as: Jimmy Carter, Oprah Winfrey, William Bennett, Sophia Loren, William Safire, Walter Cronkite, Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Larry King, Mark Victor Hansen, Harvey Mackay, Tim Allen, Paul Reiser, and Edward James Olmos. Ms. Chase has also provided media expertise for the National Geographic Society, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, Discovery Communications, Inc., the Brookings Institution, 1800flowers.com, CARE, several U.S. representatives to Congress, and many others.

Ms. Chase also founded PTA Washington’s TEAM ESPAÑOL. She helped launch People en Español magazine and publicized the Hispanic Heritage Awards at the Kennedy Center. Ms. Chase managed the company-wide, multi-media campaign, AMERICANOS, with Edward James Olmos, and clients Time Warner and the Smithsonian.

Ms. Chase was also a fundraiser for Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and received her B.A. in journalism from W&L in 1993. She attended Estudio Internacional Sampere in Madrid, Spain for studies in Spanish.

Ms. Chase speaks to groups about the media and has been a board member of the American News Women’s Club and Washington and Lee University’s Washington, D.C. Alumni Board.

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Sandy Trupp

Managing Director / MediaConnect, DC a division of Finn Partners

As Managing Director of MediaConnect, DC a division of Finn Partners and a Partner at Finn Partners, Sandy Trupp is responsible for creative strategies, national media placements, new business and regional operations of the division. Her team develops media campaigns targeting national and local media for clients including spokespersons, celebrities, politicians, corporations and authors. Ms. Trupp also specializes in publishing consultation and management. She has over 25 years in the book publishing business.

Ms. Trupp’s clients include: The National Geographic Society, Smithsonian, Kaiser Permanente, ASPCA, American Automobile Association (AAA), Merriam–Webster, Inc., Brookings Institution, and the Hoover Institution. Her publishing clients include Rodale, Sterling, Penguin/Viking, Rowman and Littlefield and others.

Ms. Trupp and her team developed the strategy and implemented PR campaigns for the Brookings Institution’s findings for “Sprawl Hits the Wall in LA”,“A Region Divided” and “Unfinished Business; Why Cities Matter to Welfare Reform.”

Her experience with book development includes coordinating projects with the Library of Congress, the Humane Society of the United States, The Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of the American Indian, and National Wildlife Federation. She was on the team to develop The Library of Congress Classic Series with Fulcrum Publishing.

Ms. Trupp and her team specialize in bringing media to many press conferences. Most recently they had every network represented at the American Institute for Cancer Research press conference for a new report on cancer prevention. All the morning shows including TODAY, GOOD MORNING AMERICA , THE EARLY SHOW and CNN did coverage as well as NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight and CBS Nightly News.

She has introduced and branded PTA Politics, a division that specializes in promoting issues, political spokespersons, think tanks, blogs, dot coms and events. The campaigns have included Brookings Institution, Hoover Institution,. Democratic Courage PAC, Senator Max Cleland, Grassroots.com, Congressional Quarterly, John Avlon, Doug Schoen, Bob Woodward, George Halvorson and Karen Hughes and many more from James Carville to Senator John McCain.

Ms. Trupp has worked in the publishing field for more than 25 years in the areas of publicity, marketing, acquisitions and product development. She was also a producer at NBC. Ms. Trupp works with many best-selling authors, including Geraldine Brooks, Sue Monk Kidd, Sophia Loren, Paul Reiser, Khaled Hosseini, Stephen King, Harvey Mackay, Anna Quindlen, Donald Trump, Rosemary Altea, James Carville, Paul Begala, Brad Meltzer, Letitia Baldrige, and Carole Jackson.

She developed the publicity strategy for COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL, which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for three years and was reprinted in every country in the world. During her career, Ms. Trupp created joint promotions for major corporations, including Campbell’s Soup Company, JC Penney, Proctor & Gamble, Clairol, Kodel, Gannett Corporation and Pepperidge Farms.

Ms. Trupp is also the co-author of the book, Office Emails that Really Click, Don’t Stub Your Pinkie™ on the Space Bar published by Aegis Publishing.

Ms. Trupp gives talks to writers and professional groups. She has also produced several concerts at the Smithsonian’s Baird Auditorium, Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre, University of the District of Columbia and George Washington University. She is a board member of the American News Women’s Club and past - president of the Women in Publishing Group. She is also a member of many other organizations, including Charter 100, Women’s Foreign Policy Group and Washington Women in PR (WWPR). She was honored by WWPR in 1997 for her PR achievements and mentoring efforts.

Ms. Trupp is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Peabody Conservatory of Music. She and her husband and family live in Washington, DC.