Leslie develops and implements communication strategies for clients.

• Serves as account executive for several key clients.
• Has a forward-thinking mindset, talent for crafting compelling stories and an institutional understanding of the community.
• Collaborates with clients across multiple sectors, including nonprofit, health care, consumer products and professional services.
• Delivers marketing, public relations and visibility services, including strategic counsel, communications planning, event management and media coverage.
• Delivers consistent, positive media exposure.
• Combines expertise and enthusiasm to deliver awesome results.

How Leslie creates magic

• Copywriting is Leslie’s superpower, and her creativity and enthusiasm are backed by deep media experience and proven expansion of brands.

Education & experience

• Bachelor’s degree in English, University of Tennessee
• Master’s degree in journalism, University of Tennessee
• Leslie led equestrian sports media company Nation Media, LLC, for 10 years, developing it from a single blog into a network of websites with 1.5 million unique visitors annually and covering major events, world championships and Olympic Games.
• She co-founded Knoxville Magazine while in college and became editor-in-chief of Knoxville’s former alt-weekly Metro Pulse at age 24.

Joined firm in

• 2023

Community involvement and recognition

• Social justice activist for racial equality, gender equality, immigration reform, human rights and LGBTQ+ rights movements

A little more

• Longtime Knoxville resident.
• Husband, Tommy; son, Thomas.
• Enjoys attending live music events, playing One Knox Rec Soccer, leading trail rides at Blackberry Farm and cultivating the family’s yard as a wildlife- and pollinator-friendly habitat.
• Enneagram 7: The Enthusiast / Epicure