About Us
With over 30 years of combined experience, the team team at Papergirl PR & Marketing knows our clients and their customers inside and out. Papergirl was built upon an instant friendship and most importantly, a passion for public relations.
We are now excited to bridge the gap between you and your audience by delivering your news to both the media and the public.
MEET OUR TEAM
A Cleveland native, Megan earned her Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Public Relations from the University of South Florida in Tampa. She brings more than a decade of hands-on experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry, along with over 20 years of combined marketing, communications, and advertising agency expertise.
Megan’s career spans advertising, public relations, brand strategy, and experiential marketing, with a strong emphasis on special event execution, partnership development, and business-to-business marketing. She has led strategic and creative direction across a wide range of industries including restaurant and hospitality, food and beverage, health and beauty, finance, legal, real estate, building and construction, and entertainment.
Highly experienced in sponsor and partnership marketing, Megan has successfully negotiated and managed integrated programs on behalf of her clients, collaborating with nationally recognized brands and organizations such as Autism Speaks, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Grand Chefs Experience), Chicago Magazine, CS Magazine, Green City Market, JDRF, March of Dimes (Signature Chef Event), Meals on Wheels Chicago, and The Lynn Sage Foundation (In Good Taste Campaign).
Megan has also secured extensive national media coverage for her clients, with placements in leading publications including Chowhound, Delish, Food & Wine, Food Republic, Forbes, Mashed, Real Simple, Tasting Table, The Output | Peloton’s Blog, The Takeout, Wine Enthusiast, and more.
With experience on both the agency and client sides, and a genuine passion for hospitality and entertainment, Megan brings a strategic, creative, and highly collaborative approach to every partnership.
Megan graduated from Michigan State University where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Communication, a specialization in Public Relations and a Business Cognate. After completing several event and entertainment driven internships in college, Megan naturally landed in hospitality and entertainment PR for Ala Carte Entertainment, a bar, nightclub and restaurant group that owns and operates over 15 Chicagoland locations. Megan then worked for Blast Marketing in Chicago where she strengthened her PR and marketing portfolio and fine-tuned her management style leading the PR team as the Director of PR. She worked with clients across the hospitality, health, beauty, and lifestyle industries in at least 10 states including Entertainment Cruises, Gibsons Group, Giordano’s, Go Roma, IVme (formerly Revive), Rosebud Restaurants, Takito Kitchen, Texas de Brazil, Whole Foods, and more.
In 2013, Megan co-founded Papergirl PR & Marketing where she continues to work in hospitality and lifestyle public relations, marketing and social media. While she loves working on new business or product launches having executed grand opening campaigns for over 30 businesses, Megan believes clients benefit most from long-term relationships where a cohesive and comprehensive marketing, PR and social media strategy can be implemented.
Megan cultivates local media and influencer relationships and placements for her clients but has had great success with national hits in publications like Bravo.com, Brides, Bustle, Food & Wine’s FWx, Forbes, Reader’s Digest, The Daily Meal, The National Culinary Review, NY Post, Today.com, USA Today and more. She also plans and facilitates countless TV and radio segments each year along with at least one small or large-scale media, concierge and influencer event each month.