About Us
Bernice Loralee Guity
Bernice is the owner of P&G Communications Inc., a full-service public relations and marketing firm in Atlanta. She holds an MBA in Human Resources Management from Strayer University and a BA in Communications/Broadcast Journalism from Bethune Cookman College. Bernice will share proven tips and advice at the media training workshop on how to successfully gain media coverage for political campaigns – and how to win every time with the media!
She is a seasoned communicator with more than 15 years of journalism, public relations, marketing and media relations experience. Bernice also worked for nine years as a newspaper reporter writing front-page stories for the New York Times Newspaper Group, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and the American City Business Journals. Bernice was awarded the Editor’s Award at the Business Journal for “Finding Breaking News and Stepping up Coverage of Her Beats” in July 1999 and again for “A Month of Front Page News on the Health Care Industry” in August 1999. She was also selected twice as a recipient of the Freedom Forum’s Chips Quinn Honors Journalism Program, and while in undergraduate school voted “Reporter of The Year.”
Bernice has also worked in Atlanta as a Public Relations Manager for Emory Hospitals and as a Communications Director for the American Diabetes Association. In 2003, she wrote her first book, “Inside the Notepad of a Reporter.” The guidebook provides tips and advice to high school and college students interested in entering the field of journalism.
Bernice is a native of Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in Florida and currently resides in Atlanta. She is also very proud of her Hispanic heritage – her parents are natives of Honduras and she speaks Spanish fluently.
Michael McKay Murphy
Michael has more than 20 years of political experience as an Incumbent and with strategically managing campaigns. He is a graduate of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington and holds a BS in Marketing from St. Louis University. Michael will share his insight at the media training workshop into the development of campaign messages, coupled with sound strategies to augment the importance of an effective media presence.
Michael was born in Fayetteville, NC and grew up in Washington, DC. He spent more than 25 years in key corporate positions for Ford Marketing Corporation and Dunkin Donuts. In 1985, he began his political career when he decided to run for the Board of Health in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He won that race by 76 votes, and went on to serve three successful terms in Canton, MA. In 1990, Michael ran for the office of Governor’s Council and won every Precinct. He lost his re-election bid – as did almost every Republican in 1992 – after the GOP take-over of the Commonwealth in 1990. In 1994, he left the corporate arena to run for US Congress (MA-9).
Michael later came to the Atlanta area with a group of environmentally dedicated business partners to start a recycling firm in Atlanta’s Empowerment Zone Area. He began managing political campaigns after the closing of the firm in 1999. He was most notably involved in the successful election of the late Sheriff-Elect Derwin Brown of DeKalb County.
Michael has also managed campaigns for Jarrett Gorlin, for DeKalb County Commissioner; Simone Manning-Moon, for DeKalb County School Board Member; Geraldine Champion, for Sheriff DeKalb County; and Keisha Waites, for Atlanta City Council. He continues to be involved in major campaigns, most notably that of Dr. Deborah Honeycutt for Congress, District 13; Lt. Ernest Strozier, for Clayton County Sheriff; and Steven Lee, PhD., for GA State Rep, District 44.
Below Are Samples of Successful Media Michael and Bernice Garnered For Political Campaigns
Strozier For Sheriff Campaign
Press Release For The Strozier Press Conference - March 31, 2008
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(Photo by Bernice Guity): Lt. Ernest Strozier, a 2008 Candidate for Clayton County Sheriff, is shown being interviewed by the Atlanta Media on March 31, 2008 at a Press Conference at the Clayton County Courthouse in Jonesboro, GA. Media in attendance at the Press Conference: WSB-TV Channel 2, WAGA-TV Fox 5, CBS-TV 46, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) and The Clayton News Daily.Honeycutt For Congress Campaign
Dr.Travis Honeycutt Media Roundtable Release
Dr.Travis Honeycutt Media Roundtable Save the Date