KPTZ is thrilled to announce that Mari Mullen Executive Director, The Port Townsend Main Street Program, has joined our Board of Directors. She is experienced in all four areas of the Main Street Four-Point Approach (Organization, Design,Economics, Promotion), with special expertise in marketing and public relations, fundraising, promotions, heritage tourism and event planning. The Port Townsend Main Street Program is anaward-winning, fully accredited Main Street Program with a national profile. Mari has served as aconsultant to the Washington State Main Street Program, the New Mexico Main Street Program,and the Dubois Wyoming Main Street Program. Prior to her work at Main Street, she served as the Marketing Director for Centrum, a center for the arts and creative education at Fort Worden State Park, and she was a special event/program planner at the Seattle Art Museum and at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communications (Radio, TV and Film Production)from Northwestern University in Evanston IL. Her first job was working in the communicationsoffice (electronic media) for the Archbishop of Chicago.
On a personal note: I believe in volunteerism and am excited to join the board of KPTZ 91.9 FM Radio Port Townsend. Past volunteer gigs have included the Port Townsend Film Festival (12 years!) and the marketing committee of Sound Experience/the Tall Ship Adventuress. Other interests include photography, writing, attending concerts, road trips to small towns, and fixing up my Victorian fixer upper.