Marketing and Communications Team Directory

Jennifer Bair is an Art Director with the Agricultural Science’s creative team. As an Art Director, Jen works closely with educators, staff, and fellow designers and copywriters to produce marketing, educational, and training materials for both the College and Penn State Extension.

Hillary is a Marketing Strategy Specialist focused on developing products and marketing strategy for the Penn State Extension Animal Systems Unit, which includes the dairy, livestock, poultry and Equine teams, as well as the EEVB Unit, which includes the Energy, Leadership and Community Vitality, Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, and New and Beginning Farmer teams. 

Megan is a Marketing Strategy Specialist with Penn State Extension where she enjoys developing product and marketing strategies for the Horticulture Unit, working directly with the following teams: Green Industry, Master Gardeners, Tree Fruit, Vegetable and Small Fruit, and Grape and Enology.  

Stephenie is 4-H Online Administrator for the member management database used by the Pennsylvania State 4-H program. 

Jennie is the lead of the customer service group, which provides customer support for event registrations, website orders, website technical support, digital product access, as well as general Extension support questions and call routing. 

Tina is a PSU extension customer support representative for events, online courses, webinars and publication ordering.

Keith Diehl is a graphic designer with the College's creative services team, producing educational and marketing materials for Penn State Extension educators and college faculty which are made available through Penn State's land grant mission to the citizens of the Commonwealth and others who may have questions or need help with their agricultural-related problems.

Jon oversees the marketing strategy (strategy, creative), marketing technology (CRM, web, event management), digital learning (credit and non-credit), and customer service teams, where he focuses on ensuring the strategic development and implementation of integrated marketing and business solutions for the three main mission areas of the college – teaching, research, and extension.

Lauren is a Marketing Strategy Specialist focused on growing the Creamery brand via the store, their partnerships and across their e-commerce business.

Areas of Focus

Penn State Extension, Program Units:

• Agronomy and Natural Resources
• Horticulture

Kelly leads the creative services unit in Ag Marketing and Communications, managing a team of writers, editors, graphic designers, and photographers for the College of Agricultural Sciences and Penn State Extension.

Megan oversees the marketing strategy team dedicated to the College of Agricultural Sciences, Extension and Berkey Creamery. She focuses on ensuring the strategic development of marketing solutions for all three areas as well as product development for Extension.

Charlie works closely with the marketing team to understand campaign goals and identify implementation solutions for campaign plans.

Wendel is focused on managing and supporting the Penn State College of Agriculture's e-commerce websites. He is also responsible for collecting performance data for website behavior, e-commerce, and marketing campaigns for the college.

Tina oversees marketing strategy for the College. She is the primary contact for initiating marketing and communications consults, campaigns, and projects for college and department efforts in undergraduate education, alumni relations, development, graduate education, and more.

Gunnar Keith is a Customer Service Representative at Penn State Extension, whose focus is assisting customers with registering for workshops, ordering publications, call routing, and payment processing.

Zach works collaboratively with the Salesforce/CRM software team to create custom, scalable processes for Penn State Extension.

Amanda Kirsten proofreads the layouts and copyedits the manuscripts produced by Creative Services. She also proofreads other digital materials developed by Marketing and Communications.

Myrannda is a team marketing coordinator focused on executing the marketing plan and providing day-to-day marketing support for the Penn State Extension Animal Systems Unit and the Energy, Entrepreneurship, and Community Development Unit.

Michele Lauriha is a graphic designer with the Creative Services team in the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. She works closely with the creative team to create marketing and educational materials for both the college and Penn State Extension.

Braden Lee is a graphic designer with the Creative Services team at the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. He works closely with the creative team, academics, and other stakeholders to create marketing and educational materials, from concept to execution, for the college, the Creamery, and Penn State Extension. Braden is proficient in multiple programs in the Adobe Creative Suites and works across the spectrum of communications platforms to include print and digital work. His four years of experience gives him an ever-evolving palette of design styles to draw from. In his own time, Braden enjoys hiking, painting, soccer, and birdwatching. 

Prior to Penn State, Braden worked as a graphic designer at EMG Brands and InspectionGo, overseeing the creation of digital and print ads, website design, and more. He also provided freelance design services to individuals across central Pennsylvania.

Braden received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Visual Communications with a specialization in Advertising Design from Cazenovia College (NY) in 2017.

Andrea is an Art Director who works closely with educators, staff, and fellow designers and copywriters to produce marketing materials for both the College and Penn State Extension.

Kate leads the web team in providing digital solutions that meet the strategic goals of the college. Together, we develop and support extensive websites for Penn State Extension, Berkey Creamery, nine academic departments, and the college at large.  

Kristin is an event management specialist with six years of event experience. She utilizes her expertise in event logistics, event planning, and visual merchandising to help Extension educators and Penn State faculty create event registration sites.

Jennifer's primary responsibility is to support the Director of Marketing Strategy and Digital Education as well as the team leaders and staff of those departments. This includes management and coordination of budgets, processing expenses, creation of financial and operational reports, vendor contracts and agreements, calendar management, Simba and Concur reporting, logistics for meetings and interviews, as well as various other support roles for the department.

Kelly is a user experience specialist focused on improving usability for the college's digital assets, including websites for the college, Extension and Creamery. 

Emily Reid is Team Marketing Coordinator for the Penn State Extension Agronomy and Natural Resources Unit, which includes the Farm Safety, Field and Forage Crops, Forestry, Master Watershed Stewards, Pesticide Safety Education, Urban and Community Forestry, and Water Resources program teams.

Areas of Focus

• Pennsylvania 4-H

Rebecca Rumbel develops learning strategies for videos and online courses. She also focuses on the Digital Education Team’s project management, development processes, video production, and quality control.

Tim is a web developer for the College of Agricultural Sciences, and is focused on supporting and enhancing the software that drives the college's websites.

Jenny Walker is a graphic designer with the Creative Services team at the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences. She works closely with the creative team, academics, students and other stakeholders to create marketing and educational materials, from concept to execution, for both the college and Penn State Extension.

Karly is a Team Marketing Coordinator focused on executing the marketing plan and providing day-to-day marketing support for Penn State Extension program teams.

Mary is a member of the web team. She oversees training for Plone, provides web support, and works on web projects.

Brandon manages the Salesforce/CRM software team and is responsible for maintaining the technical and functional aspects of Penn State Extension's CRM applications (Salesforce.com and 4HOnline) which includes requirements assessment, project management, design, development, integration, testing, documentation, and maintenance.

Jonathan works directly with marketing strategists, copywriters, and designers to create effective solutions for print, display graphics, and social media. He guides visual communications for college relations, undergraduate education, and the Berkey Creamery.