PRAM Northeast Chapter April Meeting

399 East Main Street,Tupelo MS 38804

27 April, 2022

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Jennie Bradford Curlee, CVB, Getting Your APR Jennie Bradford Curlee, APR, TMP As Public Relations and International Sales Director for the Tupelo Convention & Visitors Bureau, Jennie Bradford Curlee inspires visitation to the birthplace of Elvis Presley. She previously served as Director of Corporate Communications for the Community Development Foundation, where she worked on the team that recruited Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi to Northeast Mississippi. Jennie Bradford earned the Tourism Marketing Professional certification through Southeast Tourism Society in 2015, and was honored as the fourteen-state tourism organization’s Rising Star in 2014. A member of the Public Relations Association of Mississippi (PRAM), she served as president of the statewide organization in 2017 and served as president of PRAM’s parent organization, the Southern Public Relations Federation in 2018. She was named one of Mississippi’s Top 50 Under 40 by the Mississippi Business Journal in 2016. Jennie Bradford earned the Accreditation in Public Relations certification in 2021 through the Universal Accreditation Board. Her work in public relations has garnered numerous awards including the William A. Taylor Best of Show Award at the Southern Public Relations Federation’s Lantern Awards in 2018. She received a Public Relations Society of America Bronze Anvil Award in 2020 for her work promoting Tupelo as an emerging culinary destination. She has won countless Public Relations Association of Mississippi PRism Awards and Southern Public Relations Association Lantern Awards for her work in the field of public relations. Jennie Bradford loves running and traveling. She completed her first full marathon in 2019 as part of the Dopey Challenge at Disney World. She and her husband, John Curlee, spend most of their free time watching their son, Miles, play baseball.