Team

Lillian Ansley

Founder of Kirbo + Ansley, Lillian Ansley, has more than 25 years of public relations experience and created a virtual public relations firm of talented professionals. Throughout her career, Lillian has held numerous leadership roles on both the client and agency side of businesses. Lillian brings considerable talent and experience to her clients with administrative leadership, government relations experience and extensive marketing skills. Lillian offers experience in reputation management, crisis communications, new product launches, partnership marketing and good old fashioned media relations. Kirbo Ansley is a boutique firm designed to give clients big agency experience with small agency attention. Lillian is proud to lead a team of go-getters that treat each client’s business as if it were their own. Learn more.

Mitzi Navarra

Mitzi Navarra has been providing smart and creatively appealing print and digital graphic design and event services in the Atlanta, GA area for over 20 years. She is skilled in print collateral design, digital graphics and layouts for websites, enewsletters and social media, logo design, advertising, branding and identity with a strong Adobe Creative Suite knowledge. As a strong entrepreneurship professional, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from The College of New Jersey.

As the mother to a fifth grader and wife to a second grade teacher, she also enjoys cooking gourmet recipes, throwing themed dinner parties for family and friends, running, practicing yoga and traveling whenever possible, taking photographs all along the way.

LAKESHIA POOLE

Lakeshia is an award-winning public relations and marketing professional who’s skills are focused on the most important piece of our client’s brand puzzle: your story. Whether it’s landing a feature in The New York Times, shooting a YouTube short, writing a blog series, or publishing a novel, Lakeshia Poole believes in creating narratives that spark change and connect people.  She has spent more than a decade helping organizations, companies and individuals tell their best stories.

Lakeshia has provided traditional and social media relations and program development to a variety of clients. She previously served as a Senior Manager at public relations firm Golin. In addition, she worked as Executive Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Oconee Fall Line Technical College,  Assistant Director of Partnership Marketing for Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s national technology initiatives with Microsoft, Comcast, Sprint, the Todd Wagner Foundation and Best Buy. She has also led public relations programs and training efforts on behalf of the national early childhood education franchise group, Primrose Schools.

When she’s not crafting content for clients, she’s dreaming up new storylines for her next fiction book, covering positive local news with her nephew Ty at PositivelyWaCo.com, or helping people fight fear with power, love and a sound mind. Lakeshia enjoys spending time with her family and rooting for The University of Georgia Bulldogs.

Sarah Locke

Sarah Locke has more than 15 years of experience in marketing and communication. Sarah’s primary responsibilities include conducting media training, coordinating traditional and social media relations, writing and creating collateral materials, researching, and planning events. Sarah is a recruiter in the finance and accounting area.

Sarah conducted media training seminars with the CDC on several occasions and has also provided media training to the Georgia Department of Human Resources staff. She has a background in broadcast and is skilled in creating and giving media training presentations.

Sarah was part of the FOX 5 News team in Atlanta, where she assisted reporters, photographers and producers with the 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. news programs, wrote scripts for upcoming events for the morning television show “Good Day Atlanta” and aided sports crews with interviews.

Sarah graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Georgia. She is a member of the National Golden Key Honor Society and the Broadcasting Education Association.

cat Campbell

Cat Campbell is a fine art, documentary, and portraiture photographer based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with over fifteen years of experience. Her innate artistic gifts have been nurtured through a lifetime working with people, landscapes, and cultures from around 100 countries. Her work has appeared in exhibitions, campaigns for nonprofits, major brands, and private collections.

Cat’s approach combines empathy, a keen artistic eye, and a curator’s sense of design.

A native of Atlanta, Cat earned a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelor of Art from the University of Georgia. Having traveled and lived around the world, she is grateful to call the grandeur of the Tetons home. Cat is an Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club NYC.

Lauren McCoy

Lauren McCoy is a nearly 20-year marketing, communications and community relations professional. She has managed campaigns for major household brands such as Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase and has stood on both agency and client sides targeting general and multicultural markets. 10 years ago, Lauren transitioned into health communications, leading prevention and community education initiatives for UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She most recently was the Regional Director of Community Marketing for Aetna, a CVS Company where she oversaw the development and deployment of community marketing tactics to drive corporate branding and business growth in local markets within nine states of the Central US Region and established and maintained not-for-profit and for-profit national, regional and local community partnerships.

Lauren holds a BA in Mass Communications from Louisiana State University and a MS in Health Communications from Boston University. She is also proficient in Spanish.

Geoffrey Fortier

Geofffrey Fortier comes from a diverse array of backgrounds, enjoying the opportunity to expand his knowledge base and skill set by re-inventing himself. He enjoys environments that focus on emerging information, technology and concepts. Currently, he desires to continue his path of web design and maintenance but with a stronger emphasis on copy/content, content management systems and graphic design.

Specialties: Technologies: HTML, CSS, CMS, Javascript, jQuery, Flash, FTP. Applications/Systems: Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash), WordPress, Joomla, Windows XP/7, MS Office Suite, Macintosh OS X. Familiarity: Linux/Unix, MySQL, PERL, PHP, Google (Analytics, Adsense)

JILL Bernhardt

Jill Bernhardt has more than 20 years of experience working in media and marketing. She has spent her career building relationships, developing campaigns and solving problems for companies in Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. 

Jill is experienced in developing and executing cross-platform solutions.  She has a strong track record of uncovering a business challenge and creating a measurable solution. The tactics that she is familiar with include mass media (radio/television/outdoor), digital solutions including OTT and experiential marketing that places the client directly in the path of their target consumer. 

Throughout her career, Jill has sold over $80M in sponsorships and media as well as managing radio stations of various formats. She has extensive marketing knowledge working with clients to identify targets, build a strategy and subsequently develop and execute the concepts.  

Jill graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and has a M.S. from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. She currently resides in Atlanta, GA where she runs and plays tennis. 

Carrie A Bowden

Carrie is a skilled communications strategist whose passion for meaningful communication makes her a force for positive impact in both the nonprofit and corporate realms.

With nearly 20 years of experience in nonprofit marketing, Carrie possesses a wide range of expertise in fundraising, including capital campaigns, annual funds, fundraising strategy, corporate partnerships, digital/social marketing, and branding & creative. She is driven by creating impactful campaigns that ignite engagement and empower individuals to effect positive change. She understands how compelling storytelling can inspire others and let them know they have the power to build a strong community. Previously, she spearheaded philanthropic engagement programs for BMW, Coca-Cola, and the Greater Atlanta McDonald’s Operators Association, raising tens of millions.

She began her career at several boutique PR firms and ad agencies, where she honed her marketing prowess. As an Atlanta native, Carrie earned her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Georgia. Beyond her professional pursuits, Carrie’s love for the arts draws her to theaters and museums, and she is an avid concertgoer. She advocates social justice causes that make a difference in marginalized communities.

Lakeitha Grey

Lakeitha specializes in behavioral communications that employs media, technology, and community platforms to achieve public awareness and evoke change. Change is hard for most people especially when certain activities or attitudes have been integrated into their daily lives. The thought of change to many people is scarier than the thought of death. She specializes in using marketing communications tools to promote behavior modification to reluctant audiences that exhibit at-risk lifestyles, habits that threaten the environment, and indifference towards social issues.