Elissa Freeman and I first met on Twitter, of course, but she happened to be in Chicago a couple of years ago and we met for coffee.

Of course, we became fast friends and get together whenever possible; the last was in July in Toronto at SocialMix.

When I searched the blog to see when was the last time I featured her here, I quickly discovered we shared a #FollowFriday, where she detailed her five brain crushes and I did mine.

She’s also guest blogged for us a few times, but she has never had her very own feature.

So here we go.

She is, first and foremost (at least career-wise) a communications professional.  When I met her, she was hiring the team at Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Games at the vice president of communications on the organizing committee. (more…)