Director of Group Accounts, Guerra DeBerry Coody

Michele is a former broadcast journalist who has worked in media, marketing and advertising for more than half her life. At the age of sixteen, Michele began working in radio and continued during college, both on-air and in music programming. After attending the University of Texas at San Antonio, she spent five years as a reporter, assignments editor and morning news producer at KENS-TV (CBS affiliate) in San Antonio. From there, she moved to public relations where she worked at a firm for three years handling news media for a national home improvement chain.  Michele has spent the last 12 years with Guerra DeBerry Coody (GDC), a marketing communications firm in San Antonio. During her time at GDC, Michele’s multi-field experience has allowed her to develop innovative marketing solutions for clients like Procter & Gamble, Citibank, Sprint PCS, Time Warner Cable and more. Michele has a passion for volunteering and spent ten years as the marketing/PR chair for the Komen San Antonio Race for the Cure® which started in 1997 as an 800 person walk and grew to a 30,000 person competitive run/walk in 2007 raising more than $1.5 million annually for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.  Michele is married to Will Brown and has two children, Noah and Macey.