Mary Ellen Slayter is managing director of Reputation Capital Media Services. Before creating her own content marketing firm, she served as director of content development and a senior general business and finance editor at SmartBrief, a leading publisher of e-mail newsletters. There, she led the editorial development of the SmartBlogs network, including SmartBlog on Leadership and SmartBlog on Social Media.
Before joining SmartBrief, she spent 8 years at The Washington Post, where she authored the Career Track column and worked as an editor in the business news department. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in agronomy from Louisiana State University. That means she can correct the pH of your lawn, as well as the errors in your content marketing strategy.
Connect with her on Facebook and on Twitter.
Brooke Howell is director of client services for Reputation Capital. Before joining Rep Capital, she served as the small business and entrepreneurship editor at SmartBrief, where she developed several new newsletters and also spent time as lead editor for newsletters on women’s business leadership, franchising, insurance, wholesale distribution, the automotive aftermarket and the law. There, she also managed U.S.-based writers as well as team researchers and writers in Manila, Philippines, and worked on several projects to improve SmartBrief’s content offerings and customer service.
Before joining SmartBrief, Brooke worked for UCG as an editor on its Home Health Line newsletter, as an assistant research editor at AARP The Magazine and as a freelance reporter for publications including The Washington Post. She has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland where she reported on crime and justice stories and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Indiana University.
Brooke is serious about work and sassy about life. She spent two years living in Japan and completed the Athleta Iron Girl Columbia Triathlon in 2011. She loves travel, biking, happy hour, crafts and any time someone else does the dishes.
Connect with Brooke on Twitter and Google+.
Dominique Rodgers is the office manager at Reputation Capital, which means she specializes in a little bit of this, a little bit of that, organization, details and haranguing all the other people on this page when necessary. Before joining Reputation Capital, she worked for several years at Louisiana Fish Fry Products and Benny’s Car Wash, two of Baton Rouge’s best-loved family businesses, specializing in payroll and human resources. She is currently finishing up her final undergraduate year at LSU after testing out nearly every possibly major on campus and then landing back on General Studies. If the planets align correctly, she’ll get her Masters in HR by 2016.
She loves all dogs, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and pineapple on pizza. Fears include heights, clowns and falling off her treadmill desk once it arrives.
Find her online at her blog, HR Gal Friday, or connect with her on Twitter.
Lee Price is marketing director at Reputation Capital. Lee graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English and Spanish. Since then, she’s taken a creative professional path, exploring her passion for writing and interest in new media. Lee comes to Reputation Capital with experience in marketing, business development, and product strategy. She has managed recruitment advertising in online publications at SmartBrief, implemented brand strategy for the world’s largest temporary tattoo manufacturer (we can’t make this stuff up), written fun and inventive copy for businesses large and small, and managed social media for a diverse array of clients.
She considers herself an expert on good beer, gummy worms, Google Reader, and exploring new cities in the US as an Air Force spouse. Find Lee on Twitter.
Catherine Conlan is a writer and editor at Reputation Capital Media Services. She has more than 20 years of experience in writing and editing at daily and weekly newspapers, monthly magazines, news websites and, most recently, for a wide variety of private clients as a freelancer. Before freelancing, she worked as a city editor at the Duluth News Tribune, where she oversaw business, health and education reporting.
She has a bachelor’s degree in Russian from St. Olaf College, and spent almost two years working in Russia as deputy editor of St. Petersburg’s leading English-language newspaper. She runs occasionally, reads voraciously, prefers the grill to the stove and chose her newest car based on how many hockey gear bags it could carry (at least two, four when necessary).
Taylor Dupuy is the content marketing intern for Reputation Capital Media Services. She is a student at Louisiana State University, majoring in psychology. Her interest in understanding the inner-workings of things has lead to a desire to understand the evolution of communication and relationships through technology and social media. She feels she brings an intuitive approach to her writing and delights in recognizing the patterns, purpose and points within content. She got her start with Reputation Capital writing blog posts at SXSW 2013.
Outside of work and school, Taylor will most likely be found in a coffee shop, buried in a book, discussing topics that make her heart sing, including holistic health, healing, quantum physics and consciousness.