about us
Barbara Puffer MA, ABC
Senior Counselor and President
Barbara brings her 35 years of communications experience to bear in her senior consulting role. She handles a broad range of public relations, development, and marketing, as well as board training and facilitation for profit and non-profit organizations. One-on-one and team approaches to consulting assignments.
Barbara is also Associate Professor for the University of Maryland University College on-line, teaching in the undergraduate Communications Studies program and for the Graduate School of Management and Technology. Professional Writing (Communications Studies and Professional Writing Program) Associate Professor and Communications Course Chairperson
IABC and Connecticut IABC member since 1974.
Proud Millennium Fund donor and Investor in the IABC Research Foundation.
More than 100 awards of Excellence and Merit.
Jeffrey Warzecha
Staff Writer
Jeffrey is a 2007 graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) and already an accomplished writer. He works full-time as an editorial assistant for The Rhee Gold Company in Norton, MA, publishers of the worldwide Dance Studio Life magazine and Goldrush, as well as other dance teaching publications.
He works part-time for Puffer Public Relations Strategies as a staff writer, writing stories and working with the media. In addition to his full-time work, Jeffrey's business writing has appeared in Kids' Running, The Hartford Courant, UCONN magazine, and the ECSU publications Newsflash, Eastern Magazine and Eastern Returns. He previously worked for ECSU's University Relations Department as an assistant writer and associate editor.
A poet and teacher at heart, Jeffrey is the recipient of the prestigious Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize awarded by The Connecticut Review and the Connecticut State University system and has had his poetry published in, among others, The Connecticut Review, The Cherry Blossom Review, The Oak Bend Review, The Rio Grande Review, The Edison Literary Review, Conclave, Thieves Jargon and Chopper Poetry Journal.