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Mary Ellen Smalley

Director of Cause and Brand Awareness, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

Mary Ellen Smalley is the Director of Cause and Brand Awareness at the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Her primary roles include producing all brand journalism, overseeing the Adoption-Friendly Workplace program, collaborating with an outside agency to create all public service announcements and overseeing a team that creates all digital communications including email, website content and social media platforms. In her free time, she takes Spanish class and is moderately conversational on a good day, loves to travel, to listen to audiobooks and all the Real Housewives. Mary Ellen lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and tuxedo cat, Mr. Brian Williams.