Director of Marketing and PR

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Benjamin Demers

Director of Marketing and PR
Marketing and Public Relations
benjamin.demers@missioncollege.edu

Benjamin Demers most recently served as Public Relations Manager at Los Angeles Southwest College (LASC), where he strengthened the college's identity through marketing and public relations as well on-campus and off-campus strategic communications since 2015.

At LASC, he led two complete redesigns of its website, managed all social media accounts, and oversaw coordination of numerous high-profile campus events. Ben also led an extensive rebranding effort that involved working with multiple constituencies to develop LASC's first brand standards booklet.

Before his career in higher education, Ben worked in journalism as a newsroom editor and an education reporter. He was a contributing editor for the Daily Breezeā€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative project in 2015. Ben earned a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Rhode Island.


Education

  • Bachelor's degree Journalism, University of Rhode Island