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About the FirmLaura Soll is a public relations and event management specialist with more than 25 years of experience in Southern New England. She has managed her own firm for 20 years and is the recipient of three First Place Gold Mercury Awards years from the Public Relations Society of America's Connecticut Valley chapter (for publicity of the Connecticut Veterans Day Parade, the National Paralysis Association's "Rise to the Occasion" fundraiser with the late actor/director Christopher Reeve, and for creation/promotion of the multicultural regional Bloomfield Drum & Music Festival).
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut State Veterans Memorial in Hartford, the Urban League of Greater Hartford, and The Denise D'Ascenzo Foundation. She is the First Vice President of the Windsor Food & Fuel Bank, is Social Action Chair and a Board member of Temple Beth Hillel in South Windsor, and is a Past President of the Channel 3 Kids Camp.
Ms. Soll has worked as Director of Press & Publicity and Community Relations for WFSB Channel 3 (CBS affiliate for Hartford/New Haven), Vice President of Andrea Obston Marketing Communications, Director of Public Relations and Special Projects for the Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau, Corporate Communications Administrator for The Travelers Companies, and Manager of Media Relations for Connecticut Gov. William O'Neill's Commission on Private & Public Responsibilities for Financing Long-Term Care for the Elderly (on loan from The Travelers). She also managed the Taste of Hartford, raising $50,000 for Foodshare.
She has been a Planning Committee member for all of the University of Connecticut (UConn) Basketball NCAA Championship Victory Parades/Rallies in Hartford, and manages the events' public relations efforts. Ms. Soll is the recipient of the Channel 3 Kids Camp's "Women Raising Awareness Philanthropically (WRAP) Award", and the Camp's Outstanding Board Member honors. She is a founder of Citizens for a United Windsor (Conn.), which promotes racial, ethnic and religious understanding, and received the organization's Windsor Bridge-Builders Award.
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