Our Team
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Grant
Manufacturing Creative Director
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Jenna
Graphic & Interior Creative Director
Michelle
PR, Strategy & Event Creative Director
Originally a military brat from Jacksonville, N.C., Michelle McConnell Yelton has traveled across the U.S. producing events and promoting fun things to do since 2001. A traveler at heart, her company caters to the tourism and lifestyle industry marketing clients like Tryon International Equestrian Center, Rutherford County Tourism and events like the Lake Lure Olympiad. Yelton also co-founded and co-produced the inaugural Dirty Dancing Festival at Lake Lure that attracted attendees from 24 states and two foreign countries in its first year.
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Prior to launching McConnell Group PR in 2005, Yelton worked as a special projects manager for Harrison & Shriftman in Los Angeles where she produced and marketed numerous Hollywood events including launch parties in Houston & Miami for Lara Shriftman and Elizabeth Harrison’s Fête Accompli Workbook, The Ultimate Party Planning Guide and Serena Williams’ birthday party two years in a row.
Before joining Harrison & Shriftman, Yelton produced alumni events for American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C., where she simultaneously received her master's degree in Public Communication. While at AU SOC, Yelton helped execute two landmark events for the school including one at ABC’s Times Square Studios in New York with Charles Gibson and Greta Van Susteren, and former Good Morning America meteorologist Tony Perkins, and the second at Los Angeles Center Studios featuring Barry Josephson (Executive Producer: Bones, Men In Black). She received her undergraduate degree in Communications and French from Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C.
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Shelly
Designer
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Amanda
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Erin
Writer & Social Media Coordinator
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Warner
Web Design & Editing
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Grant
Manufacturing
Creative Director
Michelle
PR, Strategy & Event
Creative Director
Jenna
Graphics & Interior
Creative Director
Heather
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Leniece
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Connie
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Laura
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