SUZANNE ROTHENBERG, is a writer, publicist, and educator with over 25 years experience in corporate, not-for-profit, and agency public relations for television, education, and the arts.

Prior to forming her own firm in 1992, she was vice president in charge of the New York office of a Los Angeles-based entertainment PR firm, where she directed national accounts for: American Express, CINAR, The Disney Channel, Electra Entertainment, General Motors, HBO, IBM, Morgan Guaranty, MCI, The National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, PBS, the Public Education Network, Thirteen/WNET, and Scholastic Entertainment, among others.

Before that, she spent six years at Cablevision Systems, serving as executive assistant to Charles Dolan, launching Cablevision of Connecticut, directing its programming and public affairs department, producing television programming, and eventually managing Cablevision’s corporate public relations department.

An expert in event planning, she has produced events featuring Lily Tomlin, Robert Reich, Marian Wright Edelman, Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Patrick Stewart, Chuck Jones, and John Ritter among others.

As part time faculty at New York University, she is currently an adjunct professor in public relations writing in the Culture and Communications Department of the Steinhardt School of Education, teaches public relations at the Management Institute and is a former director of NYU’s Summer Institute in Public Relations. A frequent panelist and speaker on PR at high schools and colleges, she is an honors graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, holds an M.A. in Speech and Theatre from Herbert H. Lehman College, and has completed doctoral coursework in communications at NYU. She is a juror of the International Emmy awards, a member of the Media Coalition and Women in Television and Film. She lives in Manhattan.