Marketing Director Dawn Brinson brings more than 20 years of marketing, event promotions and public relations experience to The Media Matters. With a broad perspective built from working with a variety of business models in a range of industries Dawn distills the best of all these experiences into creative, workable solutions for our clients.

At Lea Industries, a division of LADD, Inc., she developed sales tools, pricing strategies, retail promotions and advertising campaigns for the youth and adult bedroom manufacturer. Further responsibilities included overseeing all operations and events associated with the company's four showrooms throughout the United States and it's presence at other home furnishings tradeshows each year.

Just prior to joining The Media Matters, Dawn was the executive director of the Furniture Discovery Center, the only museum and educational center in the nation focusing on all of the home furnishings industries. In this capacity, she was challenged with bringing the multifaceted home furnishings world to the general public in an entertaining and educational way; with all aspects of financial management, event and exhibit development, e-commerce, retail development, catalog sales, fund raising, collateral development and image building.

Dawn has worked in the publishing world, planning and executing regional book tours and events for authors published by HarperCollins, Algonquin Books, Viking Penguin, August House Publishers, Warner Books/Mysterious Press and Simon and Schuster. She was tapped by High Point University to grow its fledgling evening degree program. In short order the program doubled its enrollment of adult degree-seeking students, added two additional campus sites and the department was cited as a model for adult programs at colleges and universities in the area.

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