Paula Tsurutani is a marketing communications consultant and writer. Her work focuses on publications planning, creative direction, fund raising communications, and writing and editing services for nonprofits, associations, arts organizations, professional service firms, and private sector businesses.

She has held positions as Director of Publications Planning & Marketing at the American Bar Association, Associate Director of Direct Marketing at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Director of Marketing at the American Academy of Pediatrics, editor and marketing specialist at Arthur Young & Company (now Ernst & Young), and marketing communications specialist at Winston & Strawn LLP.

Currently, she serves on the Executive Committee of the PianoForte Foundation.  She is a past editorial board member of Association Forum, and former co-chair of the Marketing and Promotions Task Force of Association Forum’s Workforce Diversity Committee.  She has a B.A. degree from Lawrence University, is an amateur classical pianist, and a certified Master Gardener.

Awards

• Legal Marketing Association-Midwest, Your Honor Award, 2010
• International Association of Business Communicators/Pacific Plains Region, Silver Quill Award, 2009
• International Association of Business Communicators/Chicago chapter, Bronze Quill Award of Excellence, 2009
• 14th Annual Communicator Awards, Award of Distinction (print category), 2008
  
• Burton Foundation and Association of Legal Administrators, Best Law Firm Newsletter, 2008
• International Association of Business Communicators/Chicago chapter, Spectra Award of Excellence, 2007
• Chicago Women in Publishing, Excellence Award, 2002 and 2000 
  
• Mid-America Publishers Association, First Place and Honorable Mention, 1990
  

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