Do you ever have one of those days where everything goes wrong? You spill coffee on yourself, you’re late to work, you rear-end a cop at a red light. Well imagine that but with a flat tire on a plane and being in the airport during an emergency evacuation. It’s pretty awesome.
Celebrity Internships: We All Start Somewhere
As I’m wrapping up my second week as an intern here at Howard Merrell & Partners, I’ve been doing a bit of reflecting on what I’ve learned here and at my past two internships and where these experiences may lead me. Continue Reading >
Welcome Maria Martinat!
A 2010 graduate of N.C. State, Maria Martinat is proud that her first job out of college is as an Account Coordinator in the PR department at Howard, Merrell & Partners. We are excited about it too.
We found out how great Maria is while she interned with us last summer. She is intelligent, resourceful and diligent — and is a real team player. Maria will use what she learned in college as well as her other internships to help her teams provide the highest quality service to our clients. Before graduating, Maria not only interned at Howard, Merrell & Partners, but also with the Governor’s Office and NBC 17 WNCN in Raleigh. She has been busy!
Welcome to the team Maria!
Read the announcement here.
Harper Joins Media Assets Department
HM&P welcomes Christina Harper as the newest addition to its Media Assets team. In her role as planner and buyer for all digital media, Harper will primarily service the Georgia-Pacific Professional, BASF Plant Science, LLC and INVISTA CORDURA® brand accounts.
Read the announcement here.
Giving Back
Last week at the annual NutriDense kick-off meeting, HM&P coordinated a service project – to give back to the community and have some team bonding at the same time. We spent the afternoon at Three Square a relatively new, state of the art Food Bank that supports Southern Nevada.
The team packed more than 40,000 pounds of frozen meat into 40 pound boxes for the local agencies. It was a great experience.
Ann Neely, HM&P Art Buyer, to have work featured in local art gallery.
Raleigh’s 5th annual ‘Local Color’ Plein Air Paint Out was held on Saturday, April 17 in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood of Raleigh.
The ‘Paint Out’ was open to all 2-dimensional artists, except photographers.
Paintings were completed on location and framed between 9am and 5:30 pm, Saturday.
Quite a challenge!
Our art buyer and producer, Ann Neely took part, painting in Devereux Street. Her work will be displayed at the Local Color Gallery on Glenwood South during May with a wine and cheese opening reception on First Friday, May 7th.
Here’s a link to the info: http://www.localcoloraleigh.com

Hi everyone! My name is Brianne Dabiero and I am one of the new social media interns at Howard, Merrell and Partners. I will be contributing to the HM&P blog and I look forward to sharing my perspective on current events in social media with you!


