Tiffani Thomas

TIFFANI THOMAS

Tiffani came to Jackson Spalding after working for a global public relations firm where she specialized in media relations for consumer, corporate and healthcare accounts. Since joining us in 2006, she has become a key player on a number of high-profile accounts, including the award-winning 1-888-995-HOPE social marketing campaign to curtail metro Atlanta home foreclosures.

Tiffani leads the Orkin Residential business and also drives media and community relations efforts for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Baldwin County National Children’s Study for Morehouse School of Medicine, which is the largest study of child and human development ever conducted in the United States.

She’s a College Park, Ga. native who graduated from Rhode Island’s St. George’s Prep School as A Better Chance scholar, an experience she says gave wings to her dreams and subsequent successes.

Tiffani was a Presidential Scholar and member of the Leadership Institute of Hampton University where she graduated, with honors, from the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications. During college, she worked two summers at Turner Broadcasting and was later selected by ESPN as one of two students to receive a scholarship and internship at their New York headquarters.

She obtained a Master of Science degree from Ohio University’s E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, where she was a Gerbig Scholarship recipient. A gifted writer, Tiffani’s thesis on the portrayal of minorities in contemporary media was published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Tiffani has served on the board of the Atlanta chapter of the Black Public Relations Society (BPRS) and remains active on its steering committee. She also has served on the planning committee for VOX Rox the Dictionary, an annual fundraising event of VOX Teen Communications, a non-profit youth development organization. Naturally curious and adventurous, Tiffani will take any opportunity to hop on a plane for exploration. Her skills were really put to the test in 2010 when volcanic ash grounded her flights and she learned to navigate from England to Italy by train.