Dr. Felts brings more than two decades of public relations and advertising leadership to the Reynolds School. He has worked for elected officials, law firms, national non-profits, PR firms and Advertising Agencies. He served as a speechwriter and later a press secretary for Gov. Jim Hunt in North Carolina and director of community relations for the 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games. He also oversaw the media relations for the 2000 U.S. Open Women’s Golf Championship. Felts launched his career reporting at WGHP TV and later as the PIO for the North Carolina Zoological Park/NC Department of Environment & Natural Resources. He produced and hosted an “At the Zoo” television segment.
Felts spent nearly a decade in Washington, D.C., serving as a director at Levick Strategic Communications where he was a member of the Holmes Report’s Crisis Communications Team of the Year. While in D.C., he also served as the director of communications for a Pew Charitable Trust program, The Trust for Early Education, and was the media relations director at RMR & Associates.
Before coming to the Reynolds School, Felts was the national director of business development for Ogletree Deakins, one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms. Dr. Felts is an accredited professional with the Public Relations Society of America and shares his expertise as a member of the board of directors for the Nevada Humanities and Northern Nevada HOPES.
At Nevada, Felts received...
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