Writing Certificate Course – Week 3

Joyceann Garippa is the director of content & programming at Ragan Communications where she oversees the content direction of Ragan.com, PR Daily and Ragan’s Workplace Wellness Insider, as well as Ragan’s Communications Leadership Council (CLC) and PR Daily Leadership Network (PRLN). She also leads Ragan’s conference team, which creates strategic programming for conferences (live and virtual), workshops, bootcamps and webinars for Ragan’s vast audience of internal communications, external communications, wellness professionals and human resources.

Tom Corfman is a senior consultant with 30+ years of experience in journalism, media relations and the law. He began his career as a civil rights litigator and criminal defense lawyer specializing in white-collar cases. He then became managing editor at The Chicago Reporter, an investigative monthly on race and poverty. Later, he was a reporter and editor at the Chicago Tribune and Crain’s Chicago Business, where he wrote or edited many high-pressure investigative stories on defense contractors, pharmaceutical executives, real estate developers and Medicaid providers. Before joining RCG in 2021, he served for four years as director of communications for Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas.