Access Advertising & Public Relations announces that Rachel Spencer,* Senior Account Manager for Public Relations, has been named a Senior Associate of Access.

Spencer joined the agency in 2007 and has managed the public relations team since 2010. Under her direction, Access has received 16 Summit Awards for its public relations excellence from the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. During her time with Access, she has developed and led comprehensive PR and social media strategies for a variety of clients in healthcare, consumer, industrial and high-tech, and multiple B2B industries. Her efforts have secured repeated coverage in a number of leading trade publications within these industries as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Associated Press and other outlets.

Spencer has previously served on the board of directors for the Public Relations Society of America Blue Ridge Chapter and the Council of Community Services.

For more information about Access Advertising & Public Relations, visit www.visitaccess.com.

*Editor’s Note – Rachel Spencer is a resident of Southwest Roanoke County.

Access Advertising & Public Relations, based in Roanoke and founded in 1996, provides advertising, design and public relations services and has served hundreds of regional, national and international clients ranging from healthcare to higher education to technology. The firm has won more than 450 advertising, design, and public relations awards, as well as international awards for exhibit design and CASE awards for work with higher education, and has been recognized as a featured workspace in HOW Magazine and in PRINT Magazine’s Regional Design Issue. Learn more about Access at www.visitaccess.com.

Submitted by Beth Klinefelter