{"id":37611,"date":"2022-06-13T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=37611"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:30:56","slug":"jacqueline-conrad-will-be-new-vp-of-communication-marketing-at-skidmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2022\/06\/jacqueline-conrad-will-be-new-vp-of-communication-marketing-at-skidmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline Conrad Will Be New VP Of Communication, Marketing At Skidmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37612\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/06\/skidmore-marketing-vc-conrad-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/06\/skidmore-marketing-vc-conrad-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/06\/skidmore-marketing-vc-conrad.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Conrad will be Skidmore\u2019s vice president for communications and marketing.<br \/>Courtesy Skidmore College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Skidmore College announced that Jacqueline Conrad will become Skidmore\u2019s new vice president for communications and marketing as of July 5.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She will be continuing her successful 30-year career in the private and nonprofit sectors, including 18 years leading her own communications firm and the last nine years at Cambridge College in Boston, where she is currently vice president of communications and public relations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conrad\u2019s appointment follows a national search that attracted an array of exceptional candidates from across the country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to welcome Jacqui Conrad to Skidmore and into this critical leadership role,\u201d college President Marc Conner said. \u201cFrom her leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at Cambridge College and elsewhere, to her impactful work in every realm of higher education outreach and communications, Jacqui is precisely the strategist and entrepreneurial thinker Skidmore needs to lead our talented communications and marketing team.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe impressed all of us involved in this search with her experience, her poise, her creativity, and her commitment to being part of a caring and committed community. I am delighted to welcome such a strong colleague, and I look forward with great anticipation to the creativity, marketing expertise, and passion for positive change she brings to Skidmore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/b>He said Conrad\u2019s work across her career has earned her a reputation for entrepreneurial leadership, savvy marketing, social impact, and engagement with and support for diverse communities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled to join the Skidmore community to help usher in the next phase of growth and innovation under President Conner\u2019s leadership. Skidmore\u2019s commitment to building a community of inclusive excellence, trust, and acceptance is evidenced through its Racial Justice Initiative, which is one of its highest institutional priorities and deeply aligns with my passion for DEI,\u201d said Conrad.<\/p>\n<p>At Cambridge College, her contributions included leading a college reconception and rebranding, and serving as a key member of President Deborah Jackson\u2019s transformative leadership team, including co-founding (with Jackson) Cambridge College\u2019s Racial, Equity, and Social Justice Initiative to develop an intentional and strategic response to systemic racism and inequities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJacqui Conrad brings insightful views on DEI work and an exceptional level of integrity and trustworthiness to this role, characteristics highly valued at Skidmore,\u201d said Timothy Harper, associate professor of business and management, who served on the search committee.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before joining Cambridge College, Conrad led her own communications firm, delaCruz Communications in Boston, from 1996 to 2014, working on strategic communications, branding, and marketing with a host of nonprofit, educational, social justice, and corporate clients.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Suffolk University and earned a M.S. in communications management from Simmons College.<\/p>\n<p>The search was led by Conner, who chaired a committee that was assisted by Steve Leo, managing director of Storbeck Search, an executive search firm that specializes in leadership hiring for colleges and universities and is part of the Diversified Search Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skidmore College announced that Jacqueline Conrad will become Skidmore\u2019s new vice president for communications and marketing as of July 5.\u00a0 She will be continuing her successful 30-year career in the private and nonprofit sectors, including 18 years leading her own communications firm and the last nine years at Cambridge College in Boston, where she is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":37612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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