Elizabeth Cowles, President


Barbara Carpenter, Senior Associate


Emily Sorensen, Senior Associate


Brie Barash, Senior Associate


Paula Fischer, Business Development Director


Jessica DeConti, Assistant Associate


Michele Brysgel, Office Manager


Deborah Kotchen, Consultant

Emily Sorensen

Emily Sorensen brings to The Kotchen Group strong communications skills with a specialization in broadcast media relations.  She has extensive experience producing television media tours and satellite media tours, coordinating book author tours and publicizing new product and company launches. Returning to The Kotchen Group in 2008, Emily originally began working at the agency in 2001 and coordinated a variety of public relations programs for hi-tech products, lifestyle authors and giftware campaigns.
 
In the interim, she spent two years as the broadcast services team manager at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide.  While at Waggener, Emily helped coordinate broadcast campaigns for technology, consumer and health clients including Microsoft, T-Mobile, Texas Instruments, AMD, MSN.com, BMC, Shopzilla, StubHub, Shire Human Genetic Therapies and Affymetrix. 
 
Emily's media relations skills have garnered strong exposure for experts such as Mr. Gadget and a variety of health, nutrition and time management authors on regional and national television and radio shows.
 
Prior to working in public relations, Emily’s professional experience includes news and traffic reporting for Metro Networks in Austin, TX, and Hartford, CT, as well as freelance production work with ESPN. Emily graduated from of Sam Houston State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism.