User:Marcia Cole

Marcia Cole is the CEO of Ivy Communications, Inc., a multimedia firm formed in 2005 to create media properties covering beauty and style for women of color. Their first property is AMBERmag.com, an online beauty, fashion and entertainment site for African American women and Latinas. Cole is media executive with nearly 20 years of experience developing editorial strategies for new and existing brands; translating print properties into online extensions; and building editorial and design teams that deliver on-mission content for consumers and advertisers. She has held numerous top-level editorial management positions at several publishing companies including Fairchild, Vanguarde Media, Essence, Latina Media Ventures and Time Inc. where she launched or relaunched titles and websites targeting general and multicultural women audiences. Some of those titles include Suede, Heart & Soul and Girl magazines, as well as Ambermag.com, Latina.com and Realsimple.com. Marcia has also worked on the launch of websites and microsites for L'Oreal Paris, Evian and Snuggle. An accomplished editor and writer, her freelance articles about beauty, entertainment, decor and travel have appeared in Elle, Essence, Day Spa, InStyle Weddings, Savoy, The New York Times, and Vibe. She has provided media commentaries about entertainment, fashion and women's issues for The History Channel, TVOne and The Daily News. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design and a MS in Publishing from Pace University. Marcia sits on the board of directors of [New York Women in Communications, Inc.]previously as vice president of career development, and presently as vice president of membership.