Spotlight on You: How to Pitch to the Media for Creatives

Media coverage is one of the best ways to raise your profile and reach potential customers, partners, and collaborators! At this in-person PR workshop hosted on Historic Jefferson Street, attendees will gain expert insights into how to amplify your brand, passion, and artistic vision to your community through earned media. Speaker Monchiere’ Holmes-Jones, Chief Curator + CEO of MOJO Marketing + PR, will share her comprehensive knowledge on communicating to multiple levels of media with a focus on organic growth of your brand.

ABC Members: email info@abcnashville.org for a discount code.

LOCATION & PARKING

The building is located at 946 Jefferson Street, Nashville, TN 37208. Please use the studio entrance on the side of the building on 10th Ave N. 

Free parking is available in a lot around the back of the building. The driveway into the lot is on Rev Doc Enoch Jones Blvd, off 10th Ave N.

If the lot is full, continue one block north on 10th Ave N and turn right onto Scovel St. The entrance to the lot is the first driveway on your right.

MEET THE SPEAKER 

Monchiere’ Holmes-Jones
CEO + Chief Brand Curator | Mojo Marketing + PR 

“If being a branding-artist were a thing, I am the Curator!”

Monchiere’ Holmes Jones has 21+ years industry experience with a blend of agency and in-house corporate brands in major industries like tourism, historical, automotive, museums, housing, gaming, healthcare, wireless, higher education, tech, quick service restaurants.

She is a national award-winning creative known for amplifying brands that amplify culture and communities that they impact.  Monchiere’ founded MOJO Marketing + PR in 2014, helping to merge business innovation, creativity, and servant leadership. MOJO thrives on market takeover media exposure, energetic integrated marketing campaigns and ideating memorable experiential events for our clients.

Monchiere’s current claims to fame include curating brand campaigns through experiences for Harvard MGB, Tennessee Titans, NIH CEAL, Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority, National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM), Cares ACT campaign with The Equity Alliance, Tennessee State Parks, New Orleans Multicultural Tourism Network, The Cupcake Collection, MetroPCS, United States Postal Service, HCA Healthcare, Hiller Plumbing Heating Cooling & Electrical, Mr. Roof and many more.

Monchiere’ understands that effective leadership today requires more than just technical expertise—it demands authenticity. She brings her full self to the table, embodying the values of integrity, inclusivity, and purpose-driven work. By staying rooted in her identity as an empathic leader, entrepreneur and Black woman-hood, she offers a refreshing perspective in a space that often lacks diverse representation.

Monchiere' is a trusted entrepreneurial advisor and speaks around the U.S. energizing panels and conferences about her journey to be seen creatively as a black woman in the agency world and her passion to revitalize Black-owned business districts and brands that the world needs.

GUEST SPEAKER

Stephanie Pruett-Gaines
Poet, Arts Advocate + Social Enterprise Entrepreneur

Stephanie Pruitt-Gaines gets happy dance excited about font selections in Canva, birdwatching with her dogs, and a well-composed sandwich. The native Nashvillian also really digs art, community wellness, and education. As a poet and social practice artist, she's created a 10,000 square foot multi-sensory poem, and lead book, event, and installation collaborations with baseball teams, prison inmates, municipalities, grouchy elders, and major corporations. The former university professor and TEDx speaker was named one of Essence Magazine's "40 Favorite Poets" alongside Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez. Stephanie adores messy first drafts and is honored to hold space for grownups to explore their curiosity and playfulness while building creative confidence at her new venue, The Creativity Bar.