I like clean, minimalist web design to tell the strongest story.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
– Mark Twain
I talk to potential clients about their business goals and how communications might help. I also work with our web team who create and re-design websites, run social media campaigns, and create e-blasts and pay-per-click ads. And since my background is PR and I once ran as a political candidate, I also work on media relations and public affairs.
I got a PhD in American lit in California, where I got to know some pretty good storytellers — Hawthorne, Faulkner, Hemingway, Ralph Ellison. After grad school, I left academe and went into PR, working at some of the top shops in L.A., San Francisco, and Washington, DC, including the world’s oldest and largest PR firm, Hill and Knowlton.
After about a decade in PR and a trip to India, I decided to devote some serious time-out to perform a modified version of the traditional three-year Tibetan meditation retreat at a Buddhist center in rural Virginia. Talk about quiet time to meditate…
Afterwards, I moved to Staunton, a 19th-century town in the central Shenandoah Valley. There, I did marketing for the world’s only re-creation of William Shakespeare’s indoor theatre, the Blackfriars Playhouse. I also met and married Lindsay. Together, we’ve started Curren Media Group to help businesses and nonprofit groups prepare for tomorrow’s economy and reach their audiences today by telling their best stories.
I’ve helped get hundreds of stories in news media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times for businesses in industries ranging from technology and telecommunications to the arts and the environment.