In this episode we talk with Rebecca Feaman Williams VP, Group Creative Director at Burrell Communications She has been creating award-winning, campaigns for variety of products and services for over 20 years. Her adaptive and energetic style has garnered numerous awards from the Association of National Advertisers, Ad Age as well as the Telly and Addy awards. She leads the vision and development of national campaigns for McDonald’s.

 

In addition Rebecca previously assisted hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons in launching Rush Media, where she created dynamic campaigns for Coca-Cola, featuring the iconic talents of L.L. Cool J, Savion Glover and Mary J. Blige.

 

As Creative Director at SPIKE/DDB, Rebecca helped win the McDonald’s business and worked on the Fox Sports and Soft Sheen accounts.

 

Her intersections of working with such brands as Afro Punk, Big Brothers and Sisters, Planned Parenthood, Ford and Revlon puts her at a unique nucleus of merging advertising and activism.