New York native. Nomad by choice. Mermaid hair aspirant. Vintage-shoe hoarder. Cycling junkie. Mother. Hugger. Boutique hotel seeker. Lover of all pink drinks.

Emily is a consummate marketing and public relations pro with more than 14 years of experience. Emily’s career started after she co-wrote the book Beyond Burning Bras in 2008 which was published by ABC Clio. She found writing was the best form of advocacy and information networking. It is through her previous pivotal roles at Jason Dady Restaurant Group in San Antonio, Bread & Butter in Austin, and Bay Bird in San Diego that Emily has been able to acquire the professional knowledge and accolades that have propelled her career and the success of R Public Relations Firm which she founded in 2011. Emily has been featured in The New York Times, spoken on a plethora of podcasts, honored as a woman in business by Inc. Magazine and R PR has been honored as the best PR in Nashville two years in a row by Expertise.

At the helm of R PR, which specializes in the technology, hospitality, and business spheres, Emily’s passion is guiding her clients’ companies and brands to flourish. Her degrees in psychology and philosophy and her master’s in social work uniquely and strategically inform her firm’s initiatives and campaigns, empowering her clients and employees to continually evolve and thrive. She is driven by the intention to better the world around her through creative efforts and can honestly say that she admires each and every client she signs for sharing that vision and making an impactful mark on their neighborhoods and communities. 

When she’s not rapt in the work she relishes, Emily prioritizes time with her family—her husband, Colter, and their five children (nope, not a typo), “her peaches,” as she calls them—traveling the country with them to explore all its bountiful offerings, always on the lookout for R PR’s next great find along the way. Emily’s philosophy on life and lifestyle are one and the same: Your stories have power—make them move mountains and in her case live on the top of one!

Serial Entrepreneur. IPA all day. Boy Dad. Girl Dad. Web Dev. INTJ. Print Shop Papa.

Colter is the yin to Emily’s yang—the two of them create marketing and communications campaigns with creative zest, thoughtful flair, and innovative genius. Born and raised in the heart of tech, aka Northern California, Colter started his entrepreneur career like many—in his parents’ garage. At the age of 17, he started his first screen-printing and clothing brand business, Spindustry, where he met his previous business partner, Olan Rogers. Olan and Colter built an empire together with a soda shop (The Soda Parlor) and a clothing brand business (Star Cadet). As Olan’s TV career took off, he and Colter amicably parted ways and Colter began his media firm, Future Media, which focuses solely on websites and web development.

Colter’s love is in coding—he sees custom coding like custom printing in that it starts with an idea and the magic is getting the vision onto the site. Colter met RPR firm’s founder and CEO, Emily, in 2017, and they quickly became inseparable, building another empire (R Creative) and co-parenting a family in Nashville. For the past year, they have been traveling the country with their now five kids and building websites, public relations and marketing campaigns, and renovating an RV. You can find them both on a mountain top in upstate New York working on another renovation, a historic cabin and working daily on making more dreams coming true for clients across the globe.