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about
The Brack Group
The Brack Group's
communications strategists have more than 80 years of experience
working in and with the media. They can help your organization
with communications planning, Internet strategy, crisis communications
and more. Learn a little more about our principals:
Andy
Brack is a publisher and columnist who has a national
reputation as a communications strategist and Internet pioneer,
a former U.S. Senate press secretary and reporter, Brack provides
communications consulting the Charleston School of Law and
other clients. Past projects included work for the Australian
Council of Trade Unions, Hawker Britton, America Online, Commonwealth
of Australia's Department of Health and Family Services, the
Bertelsmann Foundation, Northpoint Communications and other
organizations. He currently publishes a weekly S.C. legislative
forecast called Statehouse
Report, a weekly Charleston newsletter called Charleston
Currents and SC
Clips, a daily news service.
Currently, Brack
serves as president and chairman of the Center
for a Better South. In 2011, Brack was named a White House
"Champion
of Change" for leadership on a special report by
the Center on ideas to help the Gulf coast recover following
the 2010 oil disaster.
Brack is past
chair and board member of the board of trustees of Charles
Towne Montessori, which named a continuing leadership
award in his name in 2012. Brack also is a past president
of the historic Rotary
Club of Charleston, a past president of the S.C.
Wildlife Federation and a former director of the National
Wildlife Federation. A graduate of Duke University and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brack was a candidate
for U.S. Congress in 2000. He lives with his wife and two
daughters in Charleston, S.C.
Betsy
Brack, head of our North Carolina office, develops and
implements public relations strategies for corporate, nonprofit
and municipal clients. With more than 19 years of experience
in the Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte markets, Brack specializes
in developing practical communications plans, organizing special
events and providing media training. She also works as a writer
and editor of books and articles for professional publications.
Past and current clients include Bank of America, Property
Resources and Duke Corporate Education. She is a graduate
of Duke University and lives in Durham, N.C.
Catherine
Brack has 15 years of experience working in non-profits,
specializing in new business development. From facilitating
events for NPR to marketing and promoting a world-acclaimed
performance venue, she has secured deals far and wide for
productions ranging from PBS Kids programs to long-running
prime time series. Currently, Catherine is working with the
Center for Democracy
and Technology. A graduate of Vanderbilt University and
Florida State University, Catherine resides in Washington,
DC.
Elliott
Brack is a veteran of Georgia newspapers at the weekly
(12 years) , suburban (13 years) and big-city (13 years) levels.
He most recently served as Gwinnett associate publisher of
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The current editor and publisher
of GwinnettForum.com,
Brack taught newspaper management as an adjunct assistant
professor at the University of Georgia for 10 years, and is
president and chairman of the board of The
Red and Black, the University of Georgia's independent
student newspaper. He is a past president of the Georgia Press
Association. He received his bachelor's degree at Mercer University
and his master's degree at the University of Iowa. Brack,
the author of Gwinnett:
A Little Above Atlanta, lives in Norcross, Ga., with his
wife, Barbara.
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