Tiesha Brunson named Director of Marketing and Communications at Penn State Law, SIA

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Law in University Park and the Penn State School of International Affairs (SIA) has named Tiesha Brunson as the Director of Marketing and Communications, beginning August 17, 2020.

“We are thrilled to welcome Tiesha Brunson as the Penn State Law and School of International Affairs Marketing and Communications Director,” said Hari Osofsky, dean of Penn State Law and SIA. “She brings a wealth of experience from higher education and television, and we are very excited about her vision for marketing and communications at both schools.”

Brunson joins Penn State Law and SIA from Georgian Court University, in Lakewood, New Jersey, where she was Director of Admissions Communications and Marketing, overseeing a creative team with a dotted line to University Marketing. She is also the founder of a popular mom lifestyle blog.

Prior to returning to the east coast, Brunson was Director of On-Air Promotions at ABC Television network in Los Angeles, California, where she managed two award-winning teams, on both coasts, who wrote and produced promos for The View, All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital. She started her own production company, Queens Consulting LLC, and wrote various promos for primetime television and proofread best-selling novels. She was also a writer/producer under Disney/ABC Television Group in Burbank, California, and a manager of on-air promotions at BET in Washington, D.C. Brunson began her career as a production assistant at HBO in New York City.

Brunson received a double B.A., cum laude, in mass communications and Spanish from King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and is currently working on her master's degree in integrative health.

At Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs, Brunson will serve as a member of both schools’ leadership teams and will lead her own team of marketing and communications professionals responsible for designing, planning, and executing the marketing initiatives for each school in support of their ambitious strategic plans.

“I am so excited to join Dean Osofsky’s team at Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs,” said Brunson. “Everyone has, already, been so welcoming; and, I look forward to moving our marketing and communications to a new level.”

Located on Penn State’s University Park campus, Penn State Law offers all of the resources of a world-class, public research institution while also featuring a student-centered academic environment. With a curriculum taught by renowned legal experts, interdisciplinary study opportunities across Penn State’s largest campus, ample clinical and experiential learning opportunities, exposure to emerging legal technology, and an individualized approach to career services that includes comprehensive mentoring, the Penn State Law J.D. Program is designed to give students the capacity to accomplish their professional goals.

The School of International Affairs offers an interdisciplinary graduate program drawing extensively from the intellectual resources of the School’s world-renowned faculty of globally-focused scholars and practitioners as well as from faculty across the University. Offering a professional master’s degree in international affairs with several specialty areas of study, its mission is to prepare exceptional students for careers and leadership positions in both the private and public sectors of an increasingly interdependent world.