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Associate Creative Director, Interactive Art Director also join Austin Headquarters.
AUSTIN, Texas—After a 17-year career as editor of The Alcalde, the alumni magazine of The University of Texas, Avrel Seale is moving to EnviroMedia Social Marketing, where he’ll serve as its first Chief Marketing Officer.
Seale will report directly to EnviroMedia principals Kevin Tuerff and Valerie Davis and help the agency promote authentic green marketing, sustainability and climate change protection issues. An accomplished magazine editor, book author, screenwriter and director, Seale will also oversee EnviroMedia’s internal and external communications. Seale’s Dude: A Generation X Memoir was listed by the Austin American-Statesman as one of the Best Books of 2008.
“I’ve had a tremendously fulfilling career working for the Texas Exes,” said Seale. “It took a really special organization to get me to consider something new, and EnviroMedia is just that. They’re in the business of making the world a better place by changing public behavior, and they have fun doing it. What more could you possibly want?”
Seale will finish his work with The Alcalde with the January/February issue, which commemorates the alumni group’s 125th year and goes to 85,000 Texas Exes. He joins EnviroMedia Jan. 4.
Tuerff and Davis are University of Texas graduates who met and began their careers at the Texas Exes alumni association, eventually opening EnviroMedia in 1997. Seale began his career with The Alcalde as Davis’ successor as assistant editor in 1992 and became editor in 1993.
“I’ve admired Avrel’s work with The Alcalde for a long time, and he has a genuine passion for environmental issues,” said Davis, CEO and principal of EnviroMedia. “He’ll make our staff of strong writers and creative thinkers even better and help us continue to tell the world about the important work we’re doing.”
Other Key EnviroMedia Hires
Steve Chandler is the newly appointed Associate Creative Director. He has two decades of experience as an art director and creative thinker, and worked at local agencies MC Squared, TateAustin and T3 before becoming a successful freelancer. Chandler will mentor art directors and designers, lead selected projects and work closely with EnviroMedia’s creative director. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
David Romero is the agency’s new Interactive Art Director. Most recently he worked at Spring Box, where he was a Senior Rich Media Designer. At EnviroMedia, Romero works on projects involving Flash design, Actionscript, HTML, XML and CSS. Romero is a graduate of California State University at Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in Advertising.
Dorinda Robinson assists EnviroMedia’s accounting department as an Accounts Payable Clerk. Robinson began her career at the American Heart Association as an MIS Consultant. She continued at Intera, Inc., as the MIS Coordinator and later at Dell, as a project analyst and technical support specialist. Most recently she worked at D2 Technologies, L.L.C., as the Operations Officer. Robinson took coursework in computer science at The University of Texas at Austin.
About EnviroMedia Social Marketing
EnviroMedia formed in 1997 as the nation’s first full-service marketing firm focused solely on environmental and public health issues. The company caters to state, national and global clients and has offices in Austin, Texas, and Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit enviromedia.com and greencanary.net.
