Meet the Team

Beth Coleman, Publisher

Beth Coleman oversees the Vocus Media Research Group and is responsible for the wide variety of content sets in the Vocus product. Prior to her employment with the company, she was director of knowledge management, for the US offices of Burson-Marsteller. She was also employed by the US Securities & Exchange Commission as assistant director of content management and electronic reference services. She holds a master’s degree in information studies from the University of Maryland.

Katrina Mendolera, Editor in Chief

Katrina Mendolera was the mastermind behind Seize the Day and has written stories and lent editorial support to inVocus since its onset. Before joining the Vocus research team as a senior media researcher for newspaper content in 2007, Katrina worked in daily and weekly newspapers and covered Indigenous cultures across the globe from a small office in Cambridge, Mass. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Feel free to contact Katrina at krandall@vocus.com.

Rebecca Bredholt, Managing Editor

Rebecca Bredholt has launched more than 18 award-winning magazines, overseen editorial departments of four national publications, and served as an editor for several consumer magazine Web sites before joining Vocus in 2006. She has also served as a Web correspondent from Japan, South Africa, and Ukraine. She currently oversees the Magazine Research Team, attends as many MediaBistro events as possible and always forgets her Digg user name and log in. Rebecca represents the Media Research Group at industry events such as the American Magazine Conference. She is also freelance writing for Yahoo! and is a huge fan of HARO. She holds a master’s degree in liberal studies from Rollins College.

Kristina Elliott, Assistant Editor

Kristina Elliott has assisted in editing inVocus daily since its launch, editing all content and fact-checking articles. She also writes the History Today and contributes to Pitch an Event bi-weekly. Kristina has worked in magazines since 2006, when she joined WHERE Washington, D.C., as an editorial assistant covering local art and entertainment events. She joined Vocus in 2007 as a magazine team media researcher, where one of her major duties was collecting thousands of editorial calendars to add to the Vocus Database. Kristina graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in English.

Kim Cooper, Writer

Kim Cooper regularly contributes to the Pitch an Event feature for inVocus and occasionally writes original articles. Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia, where she focused on magazine journalism. She joined Vocus in 2009 and currently serves as a senior media researcher for the newspaper team.

Regular Contributors:

Brent Treworgy
Chanelle Sirmons
Julia Russell
Kimberly Cooper
Lauren Bigge
Lauren Cohen
Mary Seidel
Nicholas Testa
Tisha Elliott