Dean Adams Email and Phone Number

"​...entertainment and media whiz..."​ - Austin Chronicle“If you are at all connected digitally — Facebook, Twitter, etc.— you know Dean ...” - Austin American-Statesman“Although a relative newcomer … Dean is an inveterate connector…” - Austin American-Statesman“… ubiquitous presence and articulate advocacy.” – Austin American-Statesman 2010 Out and About 500: Music"During her short tenure in Austin, Lofton has extended her web of friends and contacts far and wide. ... (promoting) musicians lucky enough to gain her ear. … It’s largely thanks to Dean’s grassroots marketing skills that jazz has bumped up its Austin profile in the last year.” – Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman,

An expressive writing workshop for women. Gentle encouragement in a non-academic, creative environment with the benefits of writing by hand.

Successes include: first earned media in Chicago, negotiating ad buys for significant savings increasing sales with short notice of a scheduled play being cancelled and replaced with a new play; growing social media and much more.

We Own It's Cooperative Energy Democracy Fellowship program helps electric co-op member-owners fight for integrity, transparency, clean energy, lower rates – and above all – restored democracy in their cooperative.

Since 1997 I’ve designed and taught non-academic, community writing workshops such as Write Your Life as a Woman, Collecting Your Memories and the Closet Fiction Writer’s Workshop. I also offer one-to-one coaching/mentoring sessions for writing projects. My credits include: Associate Editor for Texas EMS Magazine, commentary in Austin Monthly; Austin American-Statesman op ed; recent essays and the previous long-running “skirt tales” column in the original skirt! Magazine; body/mind/spirit column, features and reporting in the (Charleston) Post and Courier and the Columbia Free Times, Columbia Business Journal, Charleston Regional Business Journal, short stories and feminism column in Point.

Publication Credits:• Free Times, a weekly alternative press publication in Columbia, S.C., reported city government and local political events and wrote a body/mind/spirit column on natural health and healing topics.• The Post and Courier, the daily paper in Charleston, S.C., wrote a bi-weekly body/mind/spirit column detailing local events, workshops and seminars relating to spirituality, natural health and healing.• Charleston Regional Business Journal, a biweekly newspaper in Charleston, S.C., profiled local business people and wrote articles on other topics such as credit unions, workers’ rights and regional travel. • skirt! and skirtmag.com, a regional monthly women's magazine, wrote literary non-fiction and social commentary articles, and Soul Food, a weekly website piece encouraging personal and spiritual growth. • Point, a monthly alternative press magazine in Columbia, S.C., contributed short stories: “TSW 152,” and “My Mother, My Sister, Elvis and God,” and a wrote a column on feminist issues • Other publication credits include: AveNews, a spirituality magazine published in Columbia, S.C., Midlands Woman Magazine of Columbia, S.C., and Senior Living Magazine, a southeastern publication.

• Associate editor/writer: Texas EMS Magazine duties include researching, writing and editing articles for a statewide, 54-page, bimonthly magazine for EMS personnel. The magazine provides continuing education credit, local and regional news, information on state and federal regulatory policy and other articles.• Event Planner: Texas EMS Conference and other meetings duties include all aspects of event planning.

* Copy writing and strategy development for clients such as higher education, government agencies, retail, economic development and special events.* Provided content for press releases, brochures, direct mail, print ads, television, radio and web sites.

* Manage flow of work between account executives and creative department at mid-sized ad agency.* Assist in creating new system to monitor job status.

* Manage day-to-day aspects of a television commercial production company, as well as pre-production and post-production, for a one-director shop based in the southeast with representation nationally in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, and internationally in Germany and Chile.* Coordinate efforts of marketing representatives, write and distribute press releases to trade publications and produce direct mail marketing pieces.