public affairs and community relations. Before joining forces with Karen Naumann in early 2010 to form Magnolia Sky Communications, Becky ran Myers Public Relations, a strategic public relations and communications consulting firm.She serves a variety of clients including high tech, construction, real estate, public and non-profit sectors, providing media and public relations expertise and guiding the creative story-building process to help these companies differentiate themselves.
Prior to starting her consultancy, Becky was a communications manager at Texas Instruments, where she helped to launch numerous entrepreneurial start-ups within the company. She consistently put her clients products “on the map” with key industry media and analysts. Becky also developed application notes and Web content and managed the development of white papers and technical guides.
Prior to working at TI, Becky worked for the City of Houston as a public information officer – both in Mayor Lee Brown’s office and in the Planning and Development Department, where she oversaw communications for city and community initiatives. She worked with elected officials and community leaders as well as media outlets on public involvement/education programs and managed community outreach efforts as well.
Clients served include AT&T, Atos Origin, Commerciant, Getronics, mindWireless, Uson, Knowbility/AIR-Houston, Linbeck, Houston Apartment Association, the Harris County Toll Road Authority and Houston Technology Center.
From 1987 to 1992, Becky was a business reporter at the Waterbury Republican, a daily newspaper in Connecticut.
Becky graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism. She has served on the boards of the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program and AIR-Houston. Becky is a PADI-certified scuba instructor.
Karen is an award winning, seasoned practitioner with more than 15 years of mass communications experience
with a focus on media relations, public affairs and strategic development. Karen possesses proven problem solving and organizational skills with a personal commitment to high ethical standards and a reputation of getting results, as well as strong writing and editing background rooted in journalism experience. She is also an accredited in public relations (APR) through the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in which she is an active member of the Houston chapter, serving on its Public Relations Foundation of Houston board. Naumann’s work has received honors from the Houston Press Club and PRSA.A native of New Orleans and a former resident of Carencro, La., Karen graduated in 1993 from Louisiana State University (LSU) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and a minor in political science. At LSU, she was a member of the student government and on staff at the newspaper, The Daily Reveille, in addition to interning at the state capitol's newspaper The Advocate. She is currently working toward a Master’s degree in Communications at the University of Houston.
Karen is a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church parish in Richmond, where she teaches Sunday school class to elementary students.
Ania Czarnecka
Ania Czarnecka is an account executive at Magnolia
Sky Communications. Previously, she was a public relations coordinator at
Naumann Blanchard LLC.
Prior to starting her career in public relations, Ania was a child psychologist at the Romuald Traugutt Primary School and Stanislaw Wyspianski Middle School in Krakow, Poland, where she provided therapy for students, advised teachers and parents, and worked with the police, probation officers and the family court in cases involving young offenders and domestic violence. She also diagnosed learning disorders and adjusted educational standards for students with cognitive disabilities, organized educational workshops and training for children, teachers and parents, and designed and managed a Quality Management System, including surveys and data analysis.
Ania also worked as a Polish-English-Polish translator for several major translating agencies in Poland, specializing in medical and pharmaceutical translations and as an English teacher at Helen Doron Early English in Krakow, teaching children aged 15 months to 8 years through specially developed methods.
Ania is an experienced speaker and educator. In Poland, she presented on a
variety of topics, including interpersonal communication, assertiveness
training, prevention of risky behaviors in children and adolescents, and child development. She worked
as a teaching assistant both at the Jagiellonian University and the University
of Houston, teaching neuropsychology and public speaking respectively. Moreover,
her article on gender differences in brain anatomy was published in the journal
of the Polish Academy of Science and she contributed a chapter on cognitive deficits resulting from a brain stroke to a university
textbook for physical therapy students.
Ania
recently graduated from the University of Houston with a Master’s degree in
Communication – Public Relations Studies. She also earned a Master’s degree in
Psychology at the Jagiellonian University, Poland, where she completed a
one-year certification in business and management as well.
Ania
is a current member of the Public Relations Society of America Houston Chapter.
She is involved with the Membership Committee and is a trustee of the Public
Relations Foundation of Houston, where she co-chairs the PRFH scholarship and
the Silent Auction.
In
her free time, she loves to travel.
