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.

Sandra Trupp
Managing Director
Planned Television Arts

As managing director of Planned Television Arts (PTA), a division of Ruder·Finn Washington, Sandra Trupp is responsible for the regional operations and creative strategies 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 media training and publishing consultation.

Ms. Trupp has worked in the publishing field for over 20 years in the areas of publicity, marketing and product development. She was also a producer at NBC. Ms. Trupp works with many best-selling authors, including Sophia Loren, Paul Reiser, Giselle Fernandez, Harvey Mackay, Jack Anderson, Rosemary Altea, Deidre Hall, Brad Meltzer, Letitia Baldrige, and Carole Jackson.

She developed the publicity strategy for COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL which remained on the New York Times best seller 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, The Insurance Information Institute, Kodel, Gannett Corporation and Pepperidge Farms.

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, the American Academy of Facial and Plastic Reconstruction and National Wildlife Federation.

Ms. Trupp is also the co-author of the book, Office Emails that Really Click, Don’t Stub Your Pinkie™ on the Space Bar. The book, to be published in October 2000 by Aegis Publishing, is a guide to office emails for everyone in the business world, from CEOs to freelancers to junior executives to receptionists.

Ms. Trupp gives talks to writers and professional groups. She has 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 Womens Club and is also a member of many other organizations, including The Women’s National Book Association and Women of Washington and Washington Women in PR (WWPR). She was honored by WWPR in 1997 for her PR achievements and mentoring efforts.