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Kristen Myers Waddell

Kristen Waddell has 15 years experience in business with a concentration in development/implementation of strategic marketing campaigns. Kristen has a comprehensive understanding of client needs, expectations and what organizational skills must be applied to each project in keeping with the company’s key messaging and branding. As principal of Kristen Waddell Consulting, Kristen is responsible for account management in public relations, marketing, social media, direct mail, advertising, web development and special events.

Kristen currently manages marketing tasks for Gift of Life MidSouth, serves as Communication Manager for Vintage901 and Social Media Lead for Wundher, consults with several Memphis businesses, serves as Publicity Chair on the PTO Board for her son's school, serves on the Board of Turkey Trotters and the Advisory Board of Memphis Youth Coalition, volunteers for Memphis Fashion Week and recently joined the Memphis Rotary Club. 

Kristen is the immediate past Board President of Commission on Missing and Exploited Children (COMEC), has worked as Social Media Director for Memphis Health and Fitness Magazine, Interim Editor at VIP Memphis Magazine (now 4Memphis Magazine) and as a contributing writer for At Home Memphis and MidSouth, Health and Fitness, Memphis Moms Blog and StyleBlueprint, specializing in fashion, culinary, entertainment and society. Kristen has served on the Board of Directors of Volunteer MidSouth (now Volunteer Memphis), and the marketing committee for Leadership Memphis. Kristen is a past member of Le Bonheur Club, the Midsouth chapter of Public Relations Society of America, ArtsMemphis' BRAVO and Impact Memphis. She completed Leadership Memphis' Fast Track program in Spring 2008. Other notable past projects include Race Director for Legal Legs for Justice 5K, PR Director for Race for Grace, organizer for Opera in the Park, Germantown Charity Horse Show Juleps in June and Dress for Success Little Black Dress. Kristen is part of a local women's organization, Female Warriors: Armed & Delicious, whose proceeds benefit the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis (WFGM) and has volunteered for Dress for Success Memphis and the Pink Palace. 

Previously, Kristen was Senior Associate at Howell Marketing Strategies, managing the staff and client workload. Prior to her agency position, Kristen managed the Event Invitation and Volunteer Recruitment programs in the Membership Marketing Department at Ducks Unlimited National Headquarters, was a financial/account manager at Lawrence & Russell, PLC and Teacher/Counselor at Youth Villages' Dogwood Village campus.

Kristen received her B.A. from the University of Arkansas in 2002 with a double major in Sociology and Criminal Justice.

Kristen has been married to her husband, Blake, since September 2009 and they have two children, Barrett and Elizabeth Ann. They reside in Germantown and are partners at Highpoint Church and attend its Collierville campus. Kristen is a member of Germantown Baptist Church's ministry/women's bible study chapter of Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS).

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