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Tyrha M. Lindsey
President, L.A.I. Communications, Tarrytown, New York

Originally from Cincinnati, Lindsey is a business executive, artist, and entrepreneur. She received her bachelor of science in radio/TV/film from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and her masters of business administration degree with a concentration in marketing from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

Ms. Lindsey has over thirteen years of experience working in marketing and public relations in the arts, entertainment, and nonprofit arenas. She has worked with Quincy Jones, David Salzman Entertainment, NBC, Creative Artists Agency, and Edmonds Entertainment both in the development of television and film ideas and properties. She has assisted in overseeing the production of such programs as MAD TV on FOX, In the House on UPN, Lost on Earth for USA, and VIBE currently in syndication. 

In the health arena, Lindsey has worked as the regional events manager for the National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation where she produced women’s health conferences and television/radio activities geared towards educating millions of women across the country on the importance of making educated decisions about their health, well-being, and personal safety. Ms. Lindsey was the creator of the Foundation’s national minority health initiative entitled Universal Sisters, which was sponsored by Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart. She has also worked as the director of development for the LifeCenter Organ Donor Network and was the first in the nation to hold such a position overseeing the marketing/PR and fundraising for a national organ and tissue procurement organization. 

As an entrepreneur, Lindsey continues this work by way of her own award-winning marketing/PR consulting company, L.A.I Communications, which specializes in fundraising, as well as creating strategic marketing/PR solutions, with a focus on ethnic marketing for media companies, arts organizations, nonprofits, and small businesses. Such clients have included the American Diabetes Association, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Splenda, The Terrie Williams Agency, The John Anson Ford Theater, Lulu Washington Dance Company, Health Alliance, Columbia Pictures, Haitian Americans United for Progress, United States Tennis Association, Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Procter & Gamble, 3 Colored Girls Productions, and the National Speaking of Women’s Health Foundation and Holistic Healthcare.

Volunteer board affiliations include currently serving as a board of director for the Tony Award-winning Crossroads Theater Company (New Brunswick, NJ), Stoke of Hope (New York City) as well as on the Emerging Leaders Council for the Americans for the Arts (Washington, DC). Ms. Lindsey is a former member of the board of directors for the United Way Foundation of Greater Cincinnati as well as for the Cincinnati Arts Consortium. She has also worked with the YWCA, New York Chapter of the Coalition of 100 Black Women, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. on local and national levels.

Honors and awards include 2005 feature in Black Enterprise Magazine, 2004 Cincinnati Herald Nefertiti Award, 2003 Who’s Who in Black Cincinnati, 2002 YWCA Rising Star, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Summer Fellow, and National Coca-Cola Scholar, among many others.

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