Hawkins & Company PR, LLC

Hawkins Bio

Marilyn Hawkins, president of Hawkins & Company PR, LLC has 25 years of experience in marketing and public relations and identifies her strengths as B2B integrated marketing communications, reputation management, business and trade media relations, employee communications, labor/management relations and crisis response.

She has worked on such major accounts as AT&T Wireless Services, Swedish Medical Center, Medtronic PhysioControl, EDS, The Home Depot, Xerox, Frank Russell Company, Boeing, Korn/Ferry International, TCI, Associated Grocers, the John Stanford International School and many others.

Before forming her own firm in 1994, Hawkins was VP/Marketing at The Rockey Company (now Hill & Knowlton/Rockey in Seattle), which was then the Northwest's largest full-service public relations and public affairs agency. She began her agency career in 1984 as VP/PR at Sharp Hartwig Advertising.

Hawkins is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America and was Puget Sound Chapter President in 1990. She was named the chapter's "PR Professional of the Year" for 1999. An established teacher and corporate coach, she served five years as an instructor in the University of Washington's Public Relations Certificate program.

She is a past board member of Marketing Communications Executives International, the Washington Council of AEA (American Electronics Association), the Public Relations Society of America and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of King County. She is also a member of the Seattle Advertising Federation and Women Business Owners.

Hawkins is a graduate of Washington State University (Humanities) and she completed all coursework for a master's degree (English) at the University of Washington.