Ameerah Palacios helps organizations elevate their brand.

With a more than 15-year track record as a strategic public relations practitioner, she leverages her expertise in social media, marketing research, and brand journalism as an enthusiastic strategist for digital communication and marketing campaigns. Currently, she is diving into edtech, AR/VR, and microlearning as parts of her consulting efforts.

With a career as a dynamic communications educator and trainer with an extensive background in news media as a business journalist, former talk show host, radio anchor, and television news producer, she earned an MBA while in upstate New York and has a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from Western Kentucky University, where her journalism studies took her to Japan and Great Britain.

A few of Ameerah’s awards among the many include being recognized with the 2007 WKU President’s Award for Diversity and the 2008 U.S. Small Business Administration Kentucky Small Business Journalist of the Year. As an accounting and general business college instructor, she was featured in Peterson’s October 2010 book, “How to Master Online Learning.” In 2013, Ameerah earned accreditation in public relations, the PR industry’s highest credential and the mark of distinction. In 2019, Ameerah was honored as a National School Public Relations Association 35 under 35 in 2018. Out of love for her hometown’s emerging global brand, Ameerah earned the Certified Tourism Ambassador credential in December 2019.

Ameerah is also passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and acts as the publicist for nationally renowned mental health speaker Mike Veny, an NYC-based patient expert who captivates audiences with engaging presentations and workshops.

Ameerah takes business and marketing consulting projects on a referral basis.

Leadership Profile:
-Collaborative advisor
-Service-oriented outreach planner
-Organizer of strategic community partnerships
-Top 5 Gallup Strengths: Relator, Focused, Significance, Individualization, Learner
-ESFJ: Extraverted – Sensing – Feeling – Judging – Assertive

Specialties:
-Strategic Communication, Social Media and Marketing Plans
-Advertising Media planning and acquisition
-Brand Strategy
-Influencer Marketing
-Presentation Development
-Internal Communication Campaigns
-Media Relations and Public Relations Training
-Donor and Sponsorship Cultivation
-Multimedia production, including video/audio podcast creation

Ameerah is available for public speaking and hosting opportunities. For marketing and training consulting opportunities she can be reached at ameerahpalacios@ameerahpr.com .