Administration | University Marketing and Communications

906-487-2354
lpbaker@mtu.edu
Administration Building G18

She has worked in higher education marketing for more than 25 years, with experience at a private liberal arts university, small medical school, rural community college and now a major research university.
She is an award winning writer and editor and believes passionately in education in all its configurations.
She empowers people to do their best, encourages them to question the status quo and believes a sense of humor is essential in the workplace.

906-487-4521
Cell: 906-281-7530
jbdonova@mtu.edu
Administration Building G07A

Her specialties include working with local, regional, national and special-interest news media.
She is skilled at finding and developing University news and research stories and interesting the news media in covering them.
She maintains the University Experts Guide.
She is a former newspaper reporter and magazine writer.
She enjoys reading detective stories and science fiction novels.

906-487-2360
mnormand@mtu.edu
Administration Building G13

906-487-2354
dmpichet@mtu.edu
Administration Building G13

906-487-3497
kwsokol@mtu.edu
Administration Building G16

She is the lead writer and project manager for Admissions, the Center for Pre-College Outreach, and Student Affairs.
Her favorite part of her job is getting to work with students; she advises the Michigan Tech Lode and works closely with Keweenaw Pride.
She adores fresh, snappy nonfiction and spends her spare time writing and trolling the web for cool books and blogs.
She believes that the world would be a better place if everyone embraced the serial comma.

906-487-3527
btichonoff@mtu.edu
Administration Building G15

She has over a decade of design experience.
Her multimedia designs have won numerous industry awards and been published in Communication Arts and HOW Design.
Her specialty is enterprise-scale website design.
She is an incurable video game junkie.

906-487-3526
ceverran@mtu.edu
Administration Building G06A

She is the first person to contact when you are interested in working with UMC on a project.
She loves to brainstorm new ideas for publications with clients and enjoys the variety of projects that come through UMC.
Crystal is a great source when questions arise regarding University Identity Standards.
A self-described “design nerd,” she finds herself picking up publications from a variety of different places (to read and critique).