A.M. Dunning

Ann Murray developed her expertise in online publicity, social media marketing, and influencer outreach at leading agencies such as M80 Marketing (U.S.) and ThinkJam PR (UK/US). She has coordinated campaigns for major consumer and tech brands such as 20th Century Fox Entertainment, Warner Brothers, CNN, Unilever, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Mass Mutual, and The J.M. Smucker Company startups including Waze, Babelverse, and girltank. Ann holds a B.A from UCLA and a M.A. in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California, where she completed a masters thesis on the scalable business impact of social networking and blogger outreach, and worked with Harvard digital media researcher Dana Boyd. Additionally, she has served as a blogger for Comcast, Condé Nast, Huffington Post, and Gawker.