PR- PUBLIC RELATIONS - Key Persons


Carisa Carlton

Job Titles:
  • Contributor
Carisa helps PR-PublicRelations.com advance the field of public relations by prioritizing relevancy for bloggers and public relations experts. Carisa helps businesses tell a more compelling story through goal-matching analysis and professional copy. Carisa overpromises and over-delivers, creates curiosity, promotes creative freedom, and telegraphs emotion while making the process appear effortless. Carisa supports all forms of artistic expression and she especially enjoys catapulting artists into the spotlight. Carisa can explain in ten sentences what it takes others an entire book to write - a critical characteristic for successful press releases and personal promotion.

Joanna Laznicka

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Publishing Editor / PR
-PublicRelations.com was founded by Joanna Laznicka, California's leading public relations and online marketing mastermind. After 10 years of successfully managing and marketing hundreds of blogs, the meta-thinker created this forum to help bloggers and public relations experts create personal brands that build business empires and win audience views. Joanna helps bloggers and business owners overcome the wild, wild web's madness through education, organized conferences, and proven quality of work.

Mark Leonard

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Davis & Leonard LLP
  • Contributor
Mark is the co-founder of Davis & Leonard LLP, a boutique intellectual property transactional and litigation firm in Sacramento, California. Mark's practice is focused on copyright and trademark prosecution, enforcement, licensing, and litigation in the areas of trademark and copyright infringement, e-commerce, computer intrusion, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, and ICANN Internet domain name disputes. Mark is the Chair of the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Law Section ("IP Section"), the Vice-Chair of the IP Section's Legislation Interest Group, and Secretary of the IP Section's Trademark Interest Group. Prior to practicing law, Mark worked in government at the federal and state levels as a legislative staff member, spokesperson, and in the public relations field where he specialized in media relations and crisis communications training.