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SmartTalk Q&A: Danitra Bell

McDonald's Franchisee Follows in Parents' Footsteps

SmartTalk Q&A: Danitra Bell

November 14, 2008

For Danitra Bell, McDonald’s is a family business. To prepare for becoming a new franchisee, she learned from the best — her mom and dad. Read more »

 

SmartTalk: Ellen Moore

COO of Carton Donofrio Partners

SmartTalk: Ellen Moore

October 22, 2008

Ellen Moore recently assumed the position of chief operating officer for what has been recognized as the fastest-growing marketing communications agency in Baltimore — the same firm that earlier this year received 15 ADDY Awards from the Advertising Association of Baltimore and is behind the Maryland Science Center’s “Give Them Something Smarter To Do” campaign. Read more »

 

SmartTalk: Lisa Mathews

Co-founder of the Kid-oriented Rock Band Milkshake

SmartTalk: Lisa Mathews

October 9, 2008

“Kids, no less than grownups, deserve great rock music they can call their own.”

These are the words of Lisa Mathews, who spent most of the 1990s kicking around the indie music scene in the critically acclaimed, Baltimore-based rock group Love Riot. Nowadays, six years after becoming a parent and then co-founding Milkshake with guitarist Mikel Gehl, Mathews’ vocals are being heard regularly on kids’ radio stations.

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SmartTalk: Margaret Guroff

Creator of “Power Moby-Dick: The Online Annotation”

SmartTalk: Margaret Guroff

October 2, 2008

Photo by Adriana Cordero

Call her Meg.

Margaret Guroff, a former chief editor of Baltimore magazine, lives in Washington, D.C., where she is health editor of AARP The Magazine. She also teaches nonfiction writing at Johns Hopkins University and plays bass in a rock band called The Charm Offensive. But the pursuit that occupied most of Guroff’s time this spring — her obsession, if you will — was the creation of a web site devoted to making perfect sense of Herman Melville’s classic American novel, Moby-Dick. Read more »